The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. F... Lees meer

The British World and the Five Rings

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the British presided over the largest Empire in world history, a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm o... Lees meer

A Global History of Doping in Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping i... Lees meer

Encoding the Olympics

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• This book analyses the global media responses to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at all three stages: the torch relay, the opening and closing ceremoni... Lees meer

Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias

Dominique Bodin, Luc Robène

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The aim of this book, in discussing Elias's theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it ... Lees meer

Olympic Perspectives

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building p... Lees meer

The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• China's sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of ... Lees meer

Brazilian Sports History

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studying ... Lees meer

The Visual in Sport

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• This exciting and original book explores the multiple ways in which sport has been represented visually in the past, and provides a series of case stu... Lees meer

Olympic Aspirations

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The id... Lees meer

The Visual in Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, socia... Lees meer

Sport, Militarism and the Great War

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The book explores the significant, poignant and fascinating role of sport in the making of martial masculinity during, and its remaking after,the Grea... Lees meer

Historicizing the Pan-American Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest mu... Lees meer

New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the 'long twentieth century' designed to challenge and d... Lees meer

Sport and Christianity

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteent... Lees meer

Olympic Aspirations

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The id... Lees meer

Representing the Nation

Claire (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) Brewster, Keith (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) Brewster

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Representing the Nation analyzes Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games and explains how international criticism over its competence re-ignit... Lees meer

American National Pastimes - A History

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations th... Lees meer

Olympics in Conflict

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• In the second half of the twentieth century, the Olympics played an important role in the politics of the Cold War and was part of the conflicts betwe... Lees meer

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in ... Lees meer

Match Fixing and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongsi... Lees meer

Methodology in Sports History

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevi... Lees meer

The Running Centaur

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global history. Unlike previous... Lees meer

Sport and Revolutionaries

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more roma... Lees meer