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Author : Gerald Redmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Caledonian Games in Nineteenth-century America written by Gerald Redmond and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Redmond
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838630693
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth-century Canada written by Gerald Redmond and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the Scots in the development of Canadian sport. The evidence from the wide range of primary and secondary sources cited by the author proves that the Scottish contribution was significant.
Author : Nancy B. Bouchier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773570705
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book For the Love of the Game written by Nancy B. Bouchier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.
Author : Emily Ann Donaldson
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455611713
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Highland Games in America written by Emily Ann Donaldson and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a work of great value to all who seek knowledge of Scottish-American events, and who wish to understand what surely must be one of the most interesting, colorful, and evident ethnic occurrences in the U.S." -W. R. McLeod vice-chairman, Dunvegan Foundation Clan McLeod "The author's enthusiasm for the Scottish Highland Games, and indeed her expertise, are reflected in this long-awaited work. All who are interested in the story of this enduring and popular festival will be grateful to Ann Donaldson for her conscientious research. It is a fine tribute to those Americans of Scottish descent who have contributed to keep this unique aspect of their culture vibrantly alive in the New World." -Gerald Redmond author of The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth Century Canada Discover the Scottish Highland Games, celebrated in over thirty U.S. states every year. Participants compete in the caber toss, Highland dancing, piping and drumming, fiddling, and many more competitive and non-competitive events. The Scottish Highland Games in America recognizes the players and events that keep the modern Games alive and exciting. Readers will discover the history of the Games, rooted in Scotland and celebrated in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries where Scots have settled. A complete state-by-state listing of the Games and their events is also provided. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily Ann Donaldson is a devoted Games fan, a participant in Scottish country dancing, and a member of several Scottish associations.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118609409
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Sport History written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
Author : Donald J. Mrozek
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870493959
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Sport and American Mentality, 1880-1910 written by Donald J. Mrozek and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few observers of American life today would doubt that sports occupy a prominent place in our society, but equally few have examined the origins of the country's greatest passion. Probing our history, culture, and consciousness, Professor Mrozek shows how sports gained national acceptance and became as standard as fried chicken and church on Sunday.
Author : Richard Blaustein
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786414529
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)
Download or read book The Thistle and the Brier written by Richard Blaustein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland and Southern Appalachia have always shared a strong connection. Many of the first people to permanently settle in the Appalachian mountains came from the Scottish highlands seeking religious and other freedoms. Many descendants of those first settlers from Scotland still make their homes in Southern Appalachia and attribute many aspects of their culture to their Scottish heritage. This book explores the parallels and connections between Scotland and Southern Appalachia, with special attention to the interplay between revivals of folk culture, native languages, and dialects in Scotland and Appalachia since the 1970s. It covers contemporary Scottish and Appalachian cultural movements, particularly the links between cultural revivals and identity politics, and contains substantial references that increase its value as an authoritative scholarly work on the convergence of the cultures.
Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387435
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Clubbing Together written by Tanja Bueltmann and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clubbing Together offers the first global study of Scottish ethnic associationalism, exploring transnationally the evolution and role of Scottish clubs and societies.
Author : Maxine N. Lurie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813533252
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of New Jersey written by Maxine N. Lurie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Garden State can now be found in one place. This encyclopaedia contains a wealth of information from New Jersey's prehistory to the present covering architecture, arts, biographies, commerce, arts, municipalities and much more.
Author : David Hesse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799167
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Warrior dreams written by David Hesse and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a Parisian banker re-enact the medieval wars of Wallace and Bruce in his spare time? Why do more than 20,000 people attend the Schotse Weekend bagpipe competition in Bilzen, Flanders? Why does an entire village in the Italian Alps celebrate a lost Scottish regiment? And why is there a Highland Games circuit of at least 30 kilted strength competitions in Austria, with dedicated athletes tossing hay-balls and pulling tractors? This is the first study of the self-professed ‘Scots’ of Europe. It follows the many thousands of Europeans who are determined to discover their inner Scotsman, and argues that by imitating the Scots of popular imagination, the self-styled European Highlanders hope to reconnect with their own ancestors – their lost songs, traditions and tribes. They approach Scotland as a site of European memory. This book explores issues of performance and celebration, memory and nostalgia, heritage and identity, and will be of interest to specialists on Scottish emigration and diaspora, Scottish history and myth, and to the ‘Scots’ of Europe themselves.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664653
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book From Tartan to Tartanry written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws together contributions from the leading researchers to provide a contemporary evaluation of tartan and tartanry.
Author : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773521346
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 written by John Graham Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of traditional Scottish Gaelic bagpiping.
Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748688773
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930 written by Tanja Bueltmann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the Scots abroad, presenting a coherent and comprehensive account of the Scottish immigrant experience in New Zealand.
Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748648941
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Scottish Diaspora written by Tanja Bueltmann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Scottish diaspora from c.1700 to 1945 Did you know that Scotland was one of Europe's main population exporters in the age of mass migration? Or that the Scottish Honours System was introduced as far afield as New Zealand? This comprehensive introductory history of the Scottish diaspora examines these and related issues, exploring the migration of Scots overseas, their experiences in the new worlds in which they settled and the impact of the diaspora on Scotland. Global in scope, the book's distinctive feature is its focus on both the geographies of the Scottish diaspora an.
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442248602
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement written by John Grasso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.
Author : Richard D. Mandell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1583482822
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Sport written by Richard D. Mandell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's calender is set in the minds of many people by the World Series, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup, rather than by months and days. Sport must mean something. What? Richard Mandell's Sport: A Cultural History shows that sport has always vividly illustrated and reinforced the existing social and moral order. Considering that much of modern sport has evolved in England and America, it is remarkable that so few comprehensive serious studies of sport have appeared in English. This fascinatingly written, generously illustrated volume fills a gap in the literature of world cultural history. The author deals here not only with sport in the classical world where the Olympics were born, but also with sport in early industrial England, China, Japan, and modern America.
Author : S. W. Pope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135978123
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Routledge Companion to Sports History written by S. W. Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.
