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141. The Games Ethic and Imperialism

     Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal

     By J.A. Mangan

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism....

     Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge
142. The First Black Footballer

     Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

     By Phil Vasili

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty....

     Published September 29th 1997 by Routledge
143. Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom

     The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China

     By Fan Hong

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting....

     Published May 31st 1997 by Routledge
144. Kenyan Running

     Movement Culture, Geography and Global Change

     By John Bale, Joe Sang

     1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport. How significant really is Kenya in the world of sports? This book, the first to look in detail at the...

     Published September 19th 1996 by Routledge
145. The Evolution of English Sport

     By Neil Wigglesworth

     This work uses original material from clubs and sporting organizations to illuminate the evolution of sporting activity nation-wide. It relates these documents to themes such as commercialism and club fortunes. It concludes by discussing the outlook for English sport....

     Published June 30th 1996 by Routledge
146. Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

     Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation....

     Published June 28th 1996 by Routledge
147. European Heroes

     Myth, Identity, Sport

     Edited by Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic...

     Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge
148. The Global Sports Arena

     Athletic Talent Migration in an Interpendent World

     Edited by John Bale, Joseph Maguire

     Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport...

     Published January 31st 1994 by Routledge
149. The Social History of English Rowing

     By Neil Wigglesworth

     This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and...

     Published February 19th 1992 by Routledge