Mexico City's Olympic Games

Axel Elías

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous gover... Lees meer

Physical Education and Physical Culture in South Africa, 1837-1966

Francois Johannes Cleophas

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians. Consequently, a large number of scholarly... Lees meer

The Politics of Football in China

Ilker Gündoğan

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• In recent years, football has become an important field for institutional change and political steering in China. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, ... Lees meer

Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina

Mark Orton

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argen... Lees meer

Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving... Lees meer

Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Sport has never been a man's world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, work... Lees meer

Australian Rules Football During the First World War

Dale Blair, Rob Hess

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia's most popular foot... Lees meer

Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920

Luke J Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the O... Lees meer

Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany

Jon Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany betw... Lees meer

Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany

Jon Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany betw... Lees meer

Australian Rules Football During the First World War

Dale Blair, Rob Hess

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia's most popular foot... Lees meer

The British World and an Australian National Identity

Jared Van Duinen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the 'British World' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri... Lees meer

Mexico City's Olympic Games

Axel Elías

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous gover... Lees meer

Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

Benjamin Sacks

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting ... Lees meer

International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972-2020

Austin Duckworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Oly... Lees meer

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

Jens Ljunggren

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people's changing attitudes towa... Lees meer

Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Sport has never been a man's world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, work... Lees meer

War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition

Kevin Blackburn

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of th... Lees meer

Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving... Lees meer

Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970

Eilidh MacRae

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or 'managed' by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how... Lees meer

Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina

Mark Orton

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argen... Lees meer

International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972-2020

Austin Duckworth

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Oly... Lees meer

Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

Benjamin Sacks

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
• This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting ... Lees meer