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The British World and the Five Rings

Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement. Sprachen: Englisch. 26,0 cm / 18,3 cm / 1,2 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 134 Seiten
EAN 9781138909588
Veröffentlicht März 2016
Verlag/Hersteller Routledge
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Beschreibung

The British World and the Five Rings constitutes the first history of the former British Empire's engagement with the Olympic Games. It focuses not only on Britain and her Dominions, but on the Empire as a whole.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Portrait

Erik Nielsen is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University (Australia). He is the author of Sport and the British World, 1900-1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Matthew P. Llewellyn is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton, co-director of the Centre for the Socio-Cultural Sport and Olympic Research, associate editor of the Journal of Sport History, and the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of sport.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prologue-- Britain, Empire, and the Olympic Experience 2. For a 'United' Kingdom and a 'Greater' Britain: The British Olympic Association and the Limitations and Contestations of 'Britishness' 3. Flights to Empire: Australia's Imperial Engagement with the Olympic Games: 1900-1938 4. (Dis)located Olympic patriots: Sporting connections, administrative communications and imperial ether in interwar New Zealand 5. `The Emblem of One United Body . . . One Great Sporting Maple Leaf': The Olympic Games and Canada's Quest for Self Identity 6. 'In our case, it seems obvious the British Organising Committee piped the tune', the campaign for recognition of Ireland in the Olympic Movement, 1935-56 7. Rhodesia and the Olympic Games: Representations of masculinity, war, and Empire, 1965-1980 8. Epilogue: The 'British World', Other Worlds, and the Five Rings: Possibilities for Trans-Imperial Histories and Historical 'What Ifs'

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