Sport and the pursuit of war and peace from the nineteenth century to the present : : war minus the shooting? / / edited by Martin Hurcombe and Philip Dine.
"This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. Together, and through an introductory framing essay, these e...
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| Superior document: | Routledge studies in cultural history |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in cultural history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (383 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : exploring the war-peace-sport nexus / Martin Hurcombe and Philip Dine
- Boars as rebels : pig-sticking as a military sport for the British Army in India / Piyush Kumar Tiwari
- Reporting the death of cycling's elite in First World War France / Martin Hurcombe
- Women, war and sport : the battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup / Ali Bowes, Alan Bairner, Stuart Whigham and Niamh Kitching
- Sport plus the shooting : military vision and the logic of war in Esports / Nathaniel Zetter
- 'You are absolutely indifferent to the call of your king' : horse racing, war and politics in New Zealand, 1914-18 / Greg Ryan
- 'Flannelled fools are strutting about tennis courts' : lawn tennis in Britain during the Great War / Robert J. Lake
- Occupied Scandinavian brother nations : Danish and Norwegian sports during World War II / Hans Bonde and Matti Goksøyr
- The general's Vuelta : cycling and dictatorship during Colombia's La Violencia, 1953-1958 / Manuel Morales Fontanilla
- 'What demobilised men want' : physical culture and post-war British masculinity / Conor Heffernan
- The 'great game' and sport : identity, contestation and Irish-British relations in the Olympic movement / Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire
- The pathos of the soldier-athlete in Japanese memories of the Asia-Pacific War / Philip Seaton
- Remembering 'our boys' : football, war and masculinity in the British military spectacular / Daniel Fitzpatrick
- Overcoming antipathy for internationalism? : Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games / Luke J. Harris
- War and sport in 'French' Algeria : from pacification to decolonization / Philip Dine
- 'A fine example of brotherhood and sportsmanship' : the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the era of the 'little détente' / Thomas M. Hunt and Sam Schelfhout
- Replacing bullets with balls : sport for peace in the FARC demobilization and reincorporation camps / Peter J. Watson.