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1. A Significant Social Revolution

   Cross-Cultural Aspects of the Evolution of Compulsory Education

   Edited by J A Mangan, J. A. Mangan

   This volume on the emergence and development of compulsory education is original in conception, breadth and content. The international contributors deal with the enforce-ment of education in Europe and the Americas from a variety of perspectives: political, cultural, economic, educational and...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport and American Society

   Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport in South Asian Society

   Past and Present

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, J A Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

   Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising

   The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Olympic Aspirations

   Realised and Unrealised

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sport, Militarism and the Great War

   Martial Manliness and Armageddon

   Edited by Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Imperial Curriculum

    Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience

    Edited by J. Mangan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge