Sport in the Global Society

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1. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

   Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

   Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Making of Sporting Cultures

   By John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. The Lady Footballers

   Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain

   By James Lee

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British...

   Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Sporting Cultures

   Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body

   Edited by David Wood, P Louise Johnson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
7. American Sports

   An Anthropological Approach

   Edited by Alan Klein

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. While rooted in anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their evolution. The book draws from history, sociology, and...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
8. Sport in Films

   Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in...

   Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Sport in South Asia

   Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism

    The Asian Games

    Edited by Fan Hong

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological, historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006. Written by a team of...

    Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge