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Title Militarism, sport, Europe : war without weapons / editor, J.A. Mangan
Published London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations
Series European sports history review, 1462-1495 ; v. 5
European sports history review ; v. 5. 1462-1495
Contents Prologue : combative sports and combative societies / J.A. Mangan -- From the battlefield to the arena : gladiators, militarism and the Roman Republic / Donald G. Kyle -- Lasting legacy? Spartan life as a Germanic educational ideal : Karl Otfried Müller and Die Dorier / Orestis Kustrin and J.A. Mangan -- Ball games, from the Roman gentleman to the Renaissance warrior / John McClelland -- Military drill : rather more than 'brief and basic' : English elementary schools and English militarism / J.A. Mangan and Hamad S. Ndee -- 'Pig sticking is the greatest fun' : martial conditioning on the hunting fields of Empire / J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie -- Wartime opportunities : ladies' football and the First World War factories / Ali Melling -- Antidote to war : the Balkan Games / Penelope Kissoudi -- Children into soldiers : sport and fascist Italy / Roberta Vescovi -- Confronting George Orwell : Philip Noel-Baker on international sport, particularly the Olympic movement, as peacemaker / Peter J. Beck -- Compromise and confrontation : Danish sport under the Swastika / Hans Bonde -- Cold War diplomats in tracksuits : the Fräuleinwunder of East German sport / Gertrud Pfister -- Fitness 'wars' : purpose and politics in communist state building / Vassil Girginov -- Epilogue : Many mansions and many architectural styles / J.A. Mangan
Summary This collection explores the relationship between sport and war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-309) and index
Notes English
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Subject Sports -- Europe -- History
Sports -- Europe -- Sociological aspects
Military sports -- Europe -- History
Militarism -- Europe -- History
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
Militarism
Military sports
Sports
Sports -- Sociological aspects
SUBJECT Europe -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045720
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Mangan, J. A
LC no. 2003278563
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