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21. Cricketing Cultures in Conflict

    Cricketing World Cup 2003

    Edited by Boria Majumdar, J A Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realize its dream of political unity.Dealing with themes of racial/political...

    Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
22. Cricketing Cultures in Conflict

    Cricketing World Cup 2003

    By Boria Majumdar, J. A. Mangan

    The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realize its dream of political unity.Dealing with themes of racial/political...

    Published January 30th 2004 by Routledge
23. Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

    Kicking off a New Era

    By Fan Hong, J. A Mangan

    Women's soccer is one of the world's fastest-growing sports but has been subjected to little academic scrutiny. This collection considers women's football in a global context and analyses its progress, and the challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a...

    Published July 31st 2003 by Routledge
24. Reformers, Sport, Modernizers

    Middle-class Revolutionaries

    Edited by J A Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes...

    Published April 30th 2002 by Routledge
25. Sport in Latin American Society

    Past and Present

    Edited by Lamartine DaCosta, J A Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This work deals with the infancy, adolescence and maturity of sport in Latin American society. It explores ways in which sport illuminates cultural migration and emigration and indigenous assimilation and adaptation....

    Published October 31st 2001 by Routledge
26. Europe, Sport, World

    Shaping Global Societies

    By J. A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture....

    Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge
27. Making European Masculinities

    Sport, Europe, Gender

    By J. A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public...

    Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
28. Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School

    The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology

    By J. A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor...

    Published September 28th 2000 by Routledge
29. Sport in Australasian Society

    Past and Present

    Edited by J A Mangan, John Nauright

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local...

    Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge
30. Superman Supreme

    Fascist Body as Political Icon - Global Fascism

    By J A Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention. This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved....

    Published April 28th 2000 by Routledge