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Author : Colin McInnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626370135
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Spectator-sport War written by Colin McInnes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin McInnes
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781588260475
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Spectator-sport War written by Colin McInnes and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of a century dominated by global conflict - and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes - the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed.
Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714653600
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Militarism, Sport, Europe written by J. A. Mangan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the relationship between sport and war.
Author : Arthur Blaustein
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616080620
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport written by Arthur Blaustein and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A blueprint and a guidebook to help us all get involved.”—Senator John Kerry
Author : George Gipe
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great American Sports Book written by George Gipe and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On title page: A casual but voluminous look at American spectator sports from the Civil War to the present time.
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231064012
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sports Spectators written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint. Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf. From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship? Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone. Sports Spectators also looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased? You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoy Sports Spectators. Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.
Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613744005
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Pedestrianism written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America’s most popular spectator sport wasn’t baseball, football, or horseracing—it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), risking their health and sanity to see who could walk the farthest—more than 500 miles. These walking matches were as talked about as the weather, the details reported in newspapers and telegraphed to fans from coast to coast. This long-forgotten sport, known as pedestrianism, spawned America’s first celebrity athletes and opened doors for immigrants, African Americans, and women. But along with the excitement came the inevitable scandals, charges of doping and insider gambling, and even a riot in 1879. Pedestrianism chronicles competitive walking’s peculiar appeal and popularity, its rapid demise, and its enduring influence.
Author : Peter Donaldson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000048365
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport, War and the British written by Peter Donaldson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s understanding of conflict. From 1850 onwards war reportage – complemented and reinforced by a glut of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films – helped create an imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the way the ‘reality’ of war was captured in the British popular imagination. Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of modern Britain.
Author : Robert Edelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Serious Fun written by Robert Edelman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Big Red Machine," an assemblyline of sober, unsmiling Olympic champions--this was the image that dominated Western thinking about Soviet sports. But for Soviet citizens the experience of watching sports in the USSR was always very different. Soviet spectators paid comparatively little attention to most Olympic sports. They flocked instead to the games they really wanted to watch, rooted for teams and heroes of their own choosing, and carried on with a rowdiness typical of sportsfans everywhere. The Communist state sought to use sports and other forms of mass culture to instill values of discipline, order, health, and culture. The fans, however, just wanted to have fun. Official Soviet ideology was never able to control or comprehend the regressed and pleasure-seeking component not only of spectator sport but of all popular culture. In Serious Fun, Robert Edelman provides the first history of any aspect of Soviet sports, covering the most popular spectator attractions from 1917 up to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Edelman has used the highly candid sports press, memoirs, instruction books, team yearbooks, and press guides and supplmented them with Soviet television broadcasts and interviews with players, coaches, team officials, television bureaucrats, journalists, and fans to detail how spectator sport withstood the power of the state and became a sphere of life that allowed citizens to resist, deflect, and even modify the actions of the authorities. Focusing on the most popular sports of soccer, hockey, and basketball, Edelman discusses the dominant teams and the biggest stars: the international competitive successes as well as the many failures. He covers a variety of topics familiar to Western sports fans including professionalism, fan violence, corruption, political meddling, the sports press, television, and the effect of big money on competition. More than just a sports book, Serious Fun takes us deep into the social fabric of Soviet life. Edelman shows how the Big Red machine so visible in international competition was much like the giant steel mills and dams of which the Soviets boasted. These were the achievements of a state that put production above all else, but spectator sport was part of a long-suffering consumer sector that the industrial giant would never satisfy. This volume will bring a broader, richer understanding of Soviet life not only to students of popular culture and Russian history but to sports fans everywhere.
Author : Toby C Rider
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252040238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Cold War Games written by Toby C Rider and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the U.S. government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States utilized Olympic host cities as launching pads for hyping the American economic and political system. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat. Deeply researched and boldly argued, Cold War Games recovers an essential chapter in Olympic and postwar history.
Author : Stuart Croft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136328041
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Critical Reflections on Security and Change written by Stuart Croft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors reflect critically on security studies since the 1980s. They conclude that analysts and policy-makers have not been able to respond well to the changes that have occurred and that they must revise their approach if they are to meet the challenges of the future.
Author : Mike Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137402105
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Understanding Security written by Mike Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging new text introduces a wide range of theoretical perspectives with a central focus on their application to understanding key issues in global, state and human security in the contemporary world.
Author : Roger Stahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135837503
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Militainment, Inc. written by Roger Stahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers. The author examines a wide range of historical and contemporary media examples to demonstrate the ways that war now invites audiences to enter the spectacle as an interactive participant through a variety of channels—from news coverage to online video games to reality television. Simply put, rather than presenting war as something to be watched, the new interactive militainment presents war as something to be played and experienced vicariously. Stahl examines the challenges that this new mode of militarized entertainment poses for democracy, and explores the controversies and resistant practices that it has inspired. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between war and media, and it sheds surprising light on the connections between virtual battlefields and the international conflicts unfolding in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Author : Randall Amster
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875090
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation written by Randall Amster and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in secular and faith traditions. At the same time, as a relatively new and interdisciplinary field, it is ripe with innovation. This volume, the first in the series Peace Studies: Edges and Innovations, edited by Michael Minch and Laura Finley of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), is edited by top Canadian and US scholars in the field and captures both those traditions and innovations, focusing on enduring questions, organizing and activism, peace pedagogy, and practical applications. From the historical focus on disarmament, ending warfare and reducing militarism to the civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental movements, peace activists and pedagogues have long been important agents of social change. Authored by US and Canadian academics, educators, and activists, the chapters in this book demonstrate, how scholars and practitioners in the field are using the important knowledge, skills and values of their foremothers and forefathers to address new issues, integrate new technologies, and make new partners in their efforts to create a more just and humane world.
Author : Nick Turse
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608466574
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead written by Nick Turse and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors” (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects). A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot, as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter, around war-torn South Sudan, talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and internally displaced persons—people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In a fast-paced and emotionally powerful fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable. Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead isn’t about combat. It’s about the human condition, about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and about death, life, and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth. “The average journalist follows the herd of others. A bold one like Nick Turse goes to where the herd isn’t. His searing reporting in this book brings alive the suffering of a country that the United States, midwife to its birth, has largely forgotten.” ―Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Mirror at Midnight
Author : Christopher Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934598047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Die-Hard Sports Fan's Guide to Boston written by Christopher Klein and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston isn't just passionate about sports--it's obsessed. The Die-Hard Sports Fan's Guide to Boston is the first and only comprehensive guide to the incredible range of spectator sporting events in and around the Hub. Discover the heart and soul of Boston among the fans at Fenway Park, the mobs lining the route of the Boston Marathon, the tailgaters at Boston College, and the crowds celebrating yet another championship for the Pats, Sox, and Celts. Paying tribute to Boston's legendary sports history, and covering everything from the Red Sox farm teams to the Head of the Charles, Christopher Klein provides the practical information devoted fans need: How to get tickets--even at the last minute; how save cash; where to score autographs; the best Boston sports bars (here and around the world); itineraries for out-of-town sports pilgrimages; and the "Top Ten Things All Boston Fans Must Do Before the Fat Lady Sings." Whether you're a rookie or an old-timer, The Die-Hard Sports Fan's Guide to Boston is your all-access ticket to the greatest sports city in the world.
Author : Wilbur D. Jones, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454164
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book "Football! Navy! War!" written by Wilbur D. Jones, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not coincidentally, the sport of football naturally employs terms usually associated with war, such as "aerial attack," "blitz," and "trench warfare." During World War II, the United States military and colleges joined forces and fielded competitive football teams. The book highlights the Department of the Navy's role in preserving the game and football's impact on national morale and the war effort through their "lend-lease" to colleges of officer candidates, including All-America and professional players. It describes wartime college and military football throughout the globe and offers listings of college and military teams, records, scores, big games, and statistics; player and team profiles; and a glossary of period football terminology.
