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Sport and national identity in the postwar world

Sport and national identity in the postwar world
Sport and national identity in the postwar world
What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: · English football and British decline · Englishness and sport · Ethnicity and nationalism in Scotland · Social change and national pride in Wales · Irish international football and Irishness · Sport and identity in South Africa · Cricket and identity crisis in the Caribbean · Baseball, exceptionalism and American Sport · Popular mythology surrounding the sporting rivalry between New Zealand and Australia Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World presents a wealth of original research into contemporary social history and provides illuminating material for historians and sociologists alike.
041528300
Routledge
Smith, Adrian
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Porter, Dilwyn
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Smith, Adrian
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Porter, Dilwyn
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Smith, Adrian and Porter, Dilwyn (eds.) (2004) Sport and national identity in the postwar world , London, UK. Routledge, 208pp.

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What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: · English football and British decline · Englishness and sport · Ethnicity and nationalism in Scotland · Social change and national pride in Wales · Irish international football and Irishness · Sport and identity in South Africa · Cricket and identity crisis in the Caribbean · Baseball, exceptionalism and American Sport · Popular mythology surrounding the sporting rivalry between New Zealand and Australia Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World presents a wealth of original research into contemporary social history and provides illuminating material for historians and sociologists alike.

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Published date: 2004

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Local EPrints ID: 12280
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12280
ISBN: 041528300
PURE UUID: 4cbf0dd1-4000-4c58-a0f4-4ef553c13ff6

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Date deposited: 08 Apr 2005
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 13:39

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Editor: Adrian Smith
Editor: Dilwyn Porter

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