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  • TRIBAL IDENTITIES
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    TRIBAL IDENTITIES
    J.A. MANGAN
    Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment: it is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. Tribal Identities explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity promoting a sense of identity, unity, status and esteem; as an instrument of confrontation between nations, stimulating aggression,...

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  • PLEASURE, PROFIT, PROSELYTISM
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    PLEASURE, PROFIT, PROSELYTISM
    J. A MANGAN
    This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire. ...

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  • THE TRIPLE ASIAN OLYMPICS - ASIA RISING
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    THE TRIPLE ASIAN OLYMPICS - ASIA RISING
    J. A. MANGAN
    Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time this was recorded. The Olympic Games had transformational political, economic and cult...

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  • SOCCER'S MISSING MEN
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    SOCCER'S MISSING MEN
    J.A. MANGAN / COLM HICKEY
    Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football clubs. They also exported the game around the world, working as moral missionaries, passion...

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  • THE ASIAN GAMES: MODERN METAPHOR FOR THE MIDDLE KINGDOM REBORN
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    THE ASIAN GAMES: MODERN METAPHOR FOR THE MIDDLE KINGDOM REBORN
    J.A. MANGAN, MARCUS P. CHU AND DONG JINXIA
    The premise of The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor forThe Middle Kingdom Reborn - Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol is emphatic. The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games was a metaphor for hegemony and renaissance. China crushed the other Asian nations with the massive weight of its Gold Medalhaul and demonstrated regional self-confidence regained. The huge accumulation...

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  • SOFT POWER POLITICS - FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC RIM
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    SOFT POWER POLITICS - FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC RIM
    ROB HESS, PETER HORTON AND J.A. MANGAN
    Soft Power Politics- Past and Present: Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim illustrates the momentous expanse and moment of sport in the Asia Pacific region and through these essays dealing with two of the most prodigious global team sports confronts various cultural clashes that Samuel Huntington would ensure the end of civilisation. They also demonstrate the power...

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  • SUPERMAN SUPREME
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    SUPERMAN SUPREME
    J A MANGAN
    The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention. This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved. ...

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  • SHAPING THE SUPERMAN
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    SHAPING THE SUPERMAN
    J A MANGAN
    This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it. ...

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  • 'MANUFACTURED' MASCULINITY
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    'MANUFACTURED' MASCULINITY
    J. A. MANGAN
    'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known...

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  • THE GAMES ETHIC AND IMPERIALISM
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    THE GAMES ETHIC AND IMPERIALISM
    J.A. MANGAN
    This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism. ...

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  • SPORT IN EUROPE
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    SPORT IN EUROPE
    J A MANGAN
    This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the hi...

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  • FROM FAIR SEX TO FEMINISM
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    FROM FAIR SEX TO FEMINISM
    J.A. MANGAN
    First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore the role of sport in women's lives, From Fair Sex to Feminism is a central text in the ...

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  • MILITARISM, HUNTING, IMPERIALISM
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    MILITARISM, HUNTING, IMPERIALISM
    J.A. MANGAN / CALLUM MCKENZIE
    The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the ‘blooding’ hunting ritual was a visible ‘hallmark’ of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the period poet of subaltern self-sacrifice, typically considered hunting as essential for...

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  • POST-BEIJING 2008: GEOPOLITICS, SPORT AND THE PACIFIC RIM
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    POST-BEIJING 2008: GEOPOLITICS, SPORT AND THE PACIFIC RIM
    MANGAN, J. A. / HONG, FAN
    In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new...

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  • GENDER, SPORT, SCIENCE
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    GENDER, SPORT, SCIENCE
    J. A. MANGAN
    Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights. This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpr...

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  • OLYMPIC LEGACIES: INTENDED AND UNINTENDED
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    OLYMPIC LEGACIES: INTENDED AND UNINTENDED
    J A MANGAN
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the pu...

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  • REFORMERS, SPORT, MODERNIZERS
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    REFORMERS, SPORT, MODERNIZERS
    J A MANGAN
    A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and nati...

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  • MAKING EUROPEAN MASCULINITIES
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    MAKING EUROPEAN MASCULINITIES
    J. A. MANGAN
    As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to i...

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  • EUROPEAN HEROES
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    EUROPEAN HEROES
    RICHARD HOLT, J.A. MANGAN AND PIERRE LANFRANCHI
    Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The am...

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  • BEIJING 2008: PREPARING FOR GLORY
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    BEIJING 2008: PREPARING FOR GLORY
    J.A. MANGAN
    Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's anticipated moment of glory on the world stage. The Beijing Olympics was, first and foremos...

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  • MAPPING AN EMPIRE OF AMERICAN SPORT
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    MAPPING AN EMPIRE OF AMERICAN SPORT
    DYRESON, MARK / MANGAN, J.A. / PARK, ROBERTA J.
    Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in...

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  • EUROPE, SPORT, WORLD
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    EUROPE, SPORT, WORLD
    J. A. MANGAN
    The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture. ...

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  • THE CULTURAL BOND
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    THE CULTURAL BOND
    MANGAN, J.A.
    The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at vari...

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  • SPORT IN AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY
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    SPORT IN AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY
    MANGAN, J A / NAURIGHT, JOHN
    As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local and regional esteem. This collection explores the political, social and aestheti...

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  • BENEFITS BESTOWED?
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    BENEFITS BESTOWED?
    MANGAN, J. A.
    This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: The myths and visions of imperialism; The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images; The changin...

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  • THE IMPERIAL CURRICULUM
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    THE IMPERIAL CURRICULUM
    MANGAN, J. A.
    This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and South Africa, through the Indian subcontinent to Australia and New Zealand. Racia...

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  • SPORT IN ASIAN SOCIETY
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    SPORT IN ASIAN SOCIETY
    HONG, FAN / MANGAN, J.A.
    First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

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  • SOCCER, WOMEN, SEXUAL LIBERATION
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    SOCCER, WOMEN, SEXUAL LIBERATION
    FAN HONG / J.A. MANGAN
    This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a significant contribution to the emancipation of women's football in many countries. It also traces ...

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  • DISREPUTABLE PLEASURES
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    DISREPUTABLE PLEASURES
    HUGGINS, MIKE / MANGAN, J. A.
    Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes and challenges the conventional view that middle-class...

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  • A SPORT-LOVING SOCIETY
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    A SPORT-LOVING SOCIETY
    MANGAN, J A
    In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still felt in the way we organise, play and think of sport today. A Sport-Loving Society present...

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