Sheldon Anderson

The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and domestic and foreign policy. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781498517973
• ISBN-10: 1498517978
• Artikelnr.: 48699737

Autorenporträt

By Sheldon Anderson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: British Sports and National Identity in Nineteenth Century
Europe Chapter 2: Sports and Construction of American National Identity,
and the Export of Baseball Abroad Chapter 3: Sports in the Service of
Fascism and Communism in the Interwar Period. Chapter 4: Sports and the
Cold War Chapter 5: Communist Sport Rivalries and the Role of Sport in the
German Question Chapter 6: Sports and the Reconstruction of Postwar Western
Europe and Japan Chapter 7: Sports, Decolonization, and Nation Building
Chapter 8: Globalization and Competing Sporting Identities Chapter 9: The
Politics and Economics of Hosting International Sporting Events