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31. Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory

    Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'

    Edited by J.A. Mangan, Dong Jinxia

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's...

    Published October 16th 2008 by Routledge
32. Native Americans and Sport in North America

    Other People's Games

    Edited by C King

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of...

    Published October 14th 2008 by Routledge
33. Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Steven J. Jackson, Steven Haigh

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to novel social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are increasingly turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument; and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport...

    Published October 8th 2008 by Routledge
34. Gender, Sport, Science

    Selected writings of Roberta J. Park

    Edited by J. A. Mangan, Patricia Vertinsky

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating...

    Published October 8th 2008 by Routledge
35. Body and Mind

    Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

    By John McClelland

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern sport, this original book traces the history of the evolution of a variety of sport, games and physical education from 450-1650AD across Western Europe....

    Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge
36. Playing on the Periphery

    Sport, Identity and Memory

    By Tara Brabazon

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New...

    Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge
37. Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community

    The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820-1914

    By Alan Metcalfe

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895 This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of...

    Published August 31st 2008 by Routledge
38. Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

    America at the Olympics

    By Mark Dyreson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and...

    Published August 14th 2008 by Routledge
39. Football and Community in the Global Context

    Studies in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Adam Brown, Tim Crabbe, Gavin Mellor

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within...

    Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge
40. Sport in Films

    Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in...

    Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge