The politics and culture of modern sports

The politics and culture of modern sports / Sheldon Anderson.

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Sheldon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Sports > Political aspects.
Sports and state.
International relations.
international relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
International relations
Sports and state
Sports > Political aspects
Sport
Internationale Politik
Nationalbewusstsein
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Table of Contents:
  • British sports and national identity in the nineteenth-century Europe
  • Sports and construction of American national identity, and the export of baseball abroad
  • Sports in the service of fascism and communism in the interwar period
  • Sports and the cold war
  • Communist sport rivalries and the role of sport in the German question
  • Sports and the reconstruction of postwar western Europe and Japan
  • Sports, decolonization, and nation building
  • Globalization and competing sporting identities
  • The politics and economics of hosting international sporting events.

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