Militarism, Sport, Europe (eBook, PDF)

War Without Weapons
Redaktion: Mangan, J A

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays exploring the relationship between sport and war, bringing together established authors that include Peter Beck, Hans Bonde, J.A. Mangan and Gertrud Pfister, and emerging authors such as Penelope Kissoudi, Orestis Kustrin, Callum McKenzie and Roberta Vescovi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135773175
• Artikelnr.: 42983127

Autorenporträt

Mangan, J A

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue - combative sports and combative societies
J.A. Mangan; from the battlefield to the arena - gladiators
militarism and the Roman republic
Donald G. Kyle; lasting legacy? spartan life as a Germanic educational ideal - Karl Otfried Muller and Die Dorier
Orestis Kustrin and J.A. Mangan; ball games
from the Roman gentleman to the Renaissance warrior
John McClelland; military drill - rather more than brief and basic - English elementary schools and English militarism
J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie; wartime opportunities - ladies' football and the First World War factories
Ali Melling; antidote to war - the Balkan games
Penelope Kissoudi; children into soldiers - sport and fascist Italy
Roberta Vescovi; confronting George Orwell - Philip Noel-Baker on international sport
particularly the Olympic movement
as peacemaker
Peter J. Beck; compromise and confrontation - Danish sport under the swastika
Hans Bonde; Cold War diplomats in tracksuits - the Frauleinwunder of East German sport
Gertrud Pfister; fitness wars - purpose and politics in communist state-building
Vassil Girginov; epilogue - many mansions and many architectural styles
J.A. Mangan.