Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Porter, Dilwyn; Smith, Adrian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a broad range of international case studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134456932
• Artikelnr.: 38402202

Autorenporträt

Dilwyn Porter; Adrian Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Sport and national identity in contemporary England 2.
'Your boys took one hell of a beating!' English football and British
decline, c.1950-80 3. 'Every day I wake up and I thank the Lord I'm Welsh':
sport and national identity in post-war Wales 4. 'Cry for Us, Argentina':
sport and national identity in late twentieth-century Scotland 5. Who are
the boys in Green? Irish identity and soccer in the Republic of Ireland 6.
'One Nation, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal?' Sport and national identity in
South Africa 7. Cricket and a crisis of identity in the Anglophone
Caribbean 8. Baseball and American exceptionalism 9. Black against gold:
New Zealand-Australia sporting rivalry in the modern era