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1. The Triple Asian Olympics – Asia Ascendant

   Media, Politics, Geopolitics

   Edited by J.A. Mangan, Luo Qing, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Triple Asian Olympic Games - Asia Ascendant: Media, Politics and Geopolitics is the companion publication to The Triple Asian Olympics: Asia Rising - The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem. It deals, uniquely, with the role of the modern media in...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport, Literature, Society

   Cultural Historical Studies

   Edited by Alexis Tadié, J.A. Mangan, Supriya Chaudhuri

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and sport has been little explored. Sport, Literature, Society looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging from Japan to England, from India to...

   To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Soccer's Missing Men

   Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

   By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

   Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Cultural Bond

   Sport, Empire, Society

   Edited by J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory

   Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'

   Edited by J.A. Mangan, Dong Jinxia

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's...

   Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge
7. Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism

   'Blooding' The Martial Male

   By J.A. Mangan, Callum McKenzie

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the ‘blooding’ hunting ritual was a visible ‘hallmark’ of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the...

   Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge
8. Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

   Kicking off a New Era

   By Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a...

   Published July 31st 2003 by Routledge
9. Sport in Asian Society

   Past and present

   Edited by Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region....

   Published September 29th 2002 by Routledge
10. The Games Ethic and Imperialism

    Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal

    By J.A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism....

    Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge