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  • Superman Supreme

    Fascist Body as Political Icon - Global Fascism

    de J A Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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. ... Leer más

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  • 'Manufactured' Masculinity

    Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

    de J. A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    '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, at the zenith of ... Leer más

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  • The Games Ethic and Imperialism

    Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal

    de J.A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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. ... Leer más

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  • Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism

    'Blooding' The Martial Male

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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 the creation of a ... Leer más

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  • Making European Masculinities

    Sport, Europe, Gender

    de J. A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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 inspect and attempt ... Leer más

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  • Europe, Sport, World

    Shaping Global Societies

    de J. A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
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  • Soccer's Missing Men

    Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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, passionate players and ... Leer más

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  • Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

    Kicking off a New Era

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    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 the evolution of ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Women Striving for Status

    Sport as Empowerment

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  • Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School

    The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology

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    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor Mangan's customary panache, it has become a classic, the seminal work on the social and cultural history ... Leer más

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