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Brazilian Sports History
Av Mauricio Drumond, Victor Andrade de Melo
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studying how sports help us in understanding broader social, cultural, political and economic aspects of society. Barriers of language have often distanced …
Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has …
Global Perspectives on Sport and Physical Cultures
Av Annette Hofmann, Gerald R. Gems m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective. A variety of movement cultures are examined and …
Games and Sporting Events in History
Organisations, Performances and Impact
Av Annette Hofmann, Gerald R. Gems m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century …
Historicizing the Pan-American Games
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are …
Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias
Av Dominique Bodin, Luc Robène m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often …
Olympic Perspectives
Av Stephan Wassong, Richard Baka m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
796 kr
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Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. The Olympic Movement can be addressed from multidisciplinary …
Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey
Constructing a Canadian Hockey World, 1896-1907
Häftad, 2018
796 kr
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This volume examines the cultural meanings of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the author analyzes English Canadian media narratives of Stanley Cup "challenge" games and championship series between 1896 and …
Olympic Movement and the Middle East and North Africa Region
Inbunden, 2019
2666 kr
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This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.It seeks to capture how political and cultural nation-state building and economic transformations are impacting the region’s engagement (and disengagement) with the Olympic …
Sport Development and Olympic Studies
Past, Present, and Future
Av Stephan Wassong, Michael Heine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2666 kr
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In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. This book resulted from the presentations and discussions they engendered around identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the …
Match Fixing and Sport
Historical Perspectives
Av Mike Huggins, Rob Hess
Inbunden, 2019
2666 kr
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Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held belief in a mythical recent past of pristine purity. The volume begins with a brief overview of …
Sport and Christianity
Historical Perspectives
Av Hugh McLeod, Nils Martinius Justvik m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of …
Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau
New Challenges after the Handovers
Av Brian Bridges, Marcus P. Chu
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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China’s sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of China’s two Special Administrative Regions – Hong Kong and Macau – have not received the coverage they deserve either in their historical contexts or …
Martial Arts in Asia
History, Culture and Politics
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their …
Sport in Europe
Häftad, 2020
517 kr
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This book presents an overview on sport history research in Europe by giving insights into various topics between Europe´s south and north. Examples are physical activities in the middle ages in Córdoba, bullfighting in Spain, aspects of football in various countries to winter sports in France. …
Sport in the Americas
Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives
Av Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. …
Sport in Socialist Yugoslavia
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country’s social, cultural and political transformations. Sport is represented as one of the most popular and engaging cultural phenomena of social life. Sport both embodied the social dynamics of the …
Sport and Protest
Global Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Sporting mega-events habitually spawn protests from local groups discommoded by the building of new infrastructure, environmental lobbies contesting the long-term legacies of such events, and expressions of outrage at the expenditure of public funds on events often restricted to an elite selection …
Half Century of Super Bowls
National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle
Av Peter Hopsicker, Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in …
Olympics in Conflict
From the Games of the New Emerging Forces to the Rio Olympics
Av Lu Zhouxiang, Fan Hong
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the Olympics played an important role in the politics of the Cold War and was part of the conflicts between the Capitalist Block, the Socialist Block and Third World countries. The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) is one of the best examples of …
Indigenous Sports History and Culture in Asia
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This is the first book in English that adopts a critical socio-historical perspective to examine the important themes and challenges of Asian indigenous culture and sport. Written by leading sport historians and scholars, the chapters in the book contain real-life case studies and comparative …
Indigenous Sports History and Culture in Asia
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This is the first book in English that adopts a critical socio-historical perspective to examine the important themes and challenges of Asian indigenous culture and sport. Written by leading sport historians and scholars, the chapters in the book contain real-life case studies and comparative …
Asian Sport Celebrity
Av Koji Kobayashi, Younghan Cho
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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What does the ‘Asian’ mean in Asian sport celebrity? With a collection of nine essays on Asian sport celebrities variously associated with Australia, Belgium, China, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, this book offers a comprehensive …
Asian Sport Celebrity
Av Koji Kobayashi, Younghan Cho
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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What does the ‘Asian’ mean in Asian sport celebrity? With a collection of nine essays on Asian sport celebrities variously associated with Australia, Belgium, China, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, this book offers a comprehensive …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Av Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Av Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those …
Olympic Movement and the Middle East and North Africa Region
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.It seeks to capture how political and cultural nation-state building and economic transformations are impacting the region’s engagement (and disengagement) with the Olympic …
American National Pastimes - A History
Av Mark Dyreson, Jaime Schultz
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes …
Sport and Nationalism in Asia
Power, Politics and Identity
Av Fan Hong, Zhouxiang Lu
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research which addresses a number of issues central to notions of nationalism and identity in sport including: how the Olympics and other international and regional …
Global History of Doping in Sport
Drugs, Policy, and Politics
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport. Yet heretofore few historians have explored the many ways that international sport has responded to …
