| Description |
1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus -- PART I: Military and Sporting Cultures -- 1. Boars as Rebels: Pig-Sticking as a Military Sport for the British Army in India -- 2. Reporting the Death of Cycling's Elite in First World War France -- 3. Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup -- 4. Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision and the Logic of War in Esports -- PART II: Play On: Negotiating Sporting Practice in a Time of Conflict |
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5. 'You Are Absolutely Indifferent to the Call of Your King': Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand, 1914-1918 -- 6. 'Flannelled Fools Are Strutting About Tennis Courts': Lawn Tennis in Britain During the Great War -- 7. Occupied Scandinavian Brother Nations: Danish and Norwegian Sports During World War Two -- 8. The General's Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship during Colombia's La Violencia, 1953-1958 -- PART III: Sports Culture and the Legacy of War -- 9. 'What Demobilised Men Want': Physical Culture and Post-War British Masculinity |
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10. The 'Great Game' and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish-British Relations in the Olympic Movement -- 11. The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War -- 12. Remembering 'Our Boys': Football, War and Masculinity in the British Military Spectacular -- PART IV: Playing for Peace: Cultural Diplomacy or Pacification? -- 13. Overcoming Antipathy for Internationalism?: Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games -- 14. War and Sport in 'French' Algeria: From Pacification to Decolonization |
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15. 'A Fine Example of Brotherhood and Sportsmanship': The 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the Era of the 'Little Détente' -- 16. Replacing Bullets with Balls: Sport for Peace in the FARC Demobilization and Reincorporation Camps -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects -- History
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Sports -- Sociological aspects
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Nationalism and sports
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dine, Philip
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| ISBN |
9781000848588 |
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1000848582 |
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