Description |
1 online resource (viii, 228 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
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Sport in the Global Society |
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Sport in the global society.
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Contents |
Prologue. Britain's chief spiritual export : imperial sport as moral metaphor, political symbol and cultural bond / J.A. Mangan -- A sacred trinity-- cricket, school, empire : E.W. Hornung and his young guard / Malcolm Tozer -- The MMC, society and empire : a portrait of cricket's ruling body, 1860-1914 / James Bradley -- Salvation for the fittest? A west African sportsman in the age of the new imperialism / Ray Jenkins -- Emancipation, exercise and imperialism : girls and the games ethic in colonial Malaya / Janice N. Brownfoot -- The Cambridge connection : the English origins of Australian rules football / G.M. Hibbins -- Symbols of imperial unity : Anglo-Australian cricketers, 1877-1900 / Richard Cashman -- Football on the Maidan : cultural imperialism in Calcutta / Tony Mason -- Viceregal patronage : the governors-general of Canada and sport in the Dominion, 1867-1909 / Gerald Redmond -- Badge of office : sport and his excellency in the British empire / Anthony Kirk-Greene |
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(cont.) 'The warmth of comradeship' : the first British Empire Games and imperial solidarity / Katharine Moore -- Epilogue. Teaching the nations how to play : sport and society in the British Empire and Commonwealth / Harold Perkin |
Summary |
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 of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at various times and in various places imperial unity, national identity, social reform, recreational development and post-imperial goodwill |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sportsoziologie
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Geschichte
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Sport
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Kolonie
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Imperialismus
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Kulturübertragung
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Kolonialismus
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Sozialgeschichte
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Koloniale rijken.
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Sport.
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Ideologie.
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Sports -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies.
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Sports -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Conditions sociales.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Mangan, J. A
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ISBN |
9781135024383 |
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1135024383 |
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