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Gymnastics, a Transatlantic Movement

Author : Gertrud Pfister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317965426
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Gymnastics, a Transatlantic Movement written by Gertrud Pfister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations. It reconstructs the ex- and import processes from Europe to America and determines the processes, interrelationships and transformations of these "transatlantic movements" in their new home country. The book offers a more complete understanding of the role of gymnastics and expressive movements in cultural and ideological transmission over time and identifies the impact of these concepts on American physical education, sports systems and sports cultures. The main focus of the book lies in the two decades before and after World War I. This concentration on a specific historical epoch allows us to identify parallel, but also different developments of the various forms of gymnastics and of the transfer and implementation processes. The volume covers the transfer and impact of German Turnen, Czech Sokol and the Delsarte system in North America. In addition, it traces the influences of French gymnastics in South America and describes the tours of the world-renowned Danish gymnastic reformer Nils Bukh in both Americas. A focus will be the "import" of gymnastics, but also on the adaption processes of these different concepts and their integration into the American culture. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Routledge Handbook of Global Sport

Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317500474
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Global Sport written by John Nauright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio-cultural significance, political economy and international reach, and suggesting directions for future research. Expert authors from around the world provide varied perspectives on the globalization of sport, highlighting diverse and often underrepresented voices. By putting sport itself in the foreground, this book represents the perfect companion to any social scientific course in sport studies, and the perfect jumping-off point for further study or research. The Routledge Handbook of Global Sport is an essential reference for students and scholars of sport history, sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport development, sport and globalization, sports geography, international sports organizations, sports cultures, the governance of sport, sport studies, sport coaching or sport management.

Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Author : Roslyn Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100005103X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Artistic Gymnastics written by Roslyn Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women’s artistic gymnastics. Beginning with its early history as a ‘feminine appropriate’ sport, the book follows the sport through its transition to a modern sports form. Including global cases and innovative narrative methods, it explores the way gymnasts have experienced its intense challenges, the complexities of the coach-athlete relationship, and how others involved in the sport, such as parents and medical personnel, have contributed to the reproduction of a highly demanding and potentially abusive sporting culture. With the focus on a unique women’s sport, the book is an important read for researchers and students studying sport sociology, sport coaching, and physical education, but it is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of sporting talent.

Histories of Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan

Author : Christian Galan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100383003X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan written by Christian Galan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges the gap between historical research on Japan and the field of childhood history by writing children and childhood into the general historical record of the Meiji period. To explore the widely varying circumstances of childhood during the Japanese transition to modernity, the volume presents survey studies and “snapshots” of historical moments by authors from Europe, Japan, and North America. These histories of children and childhood address various thematic aspects, from birth and child-rearing to the representation of childhood in literary works, and these are approached from differing angles, in terms of theoretical perspectives and methodology. The contributions display a particular awareness for the problem of sources in writing the history of childhood and youth. In doing so, they provide precious insights into children’s living circumstances and notions of childhood, also beyond the urban centres of evolving modern Japan. Exploring a wealth of sources including autobiographies, educational essays, government documents, children’s literature, youth journals and medical manuals, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese history, children's studies, the history of education, and social policy more broadly.

East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century

Author : Balázs Trencsényi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040106196
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century written by Balázs Trencsényi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “crisis,” with its complex history, has emerged as one of the pivotal notions of political modernity. As such, reconstructing the ways the discourse of crisis functioned in various contexts and historical moments gives us a unique insight not only into a series of conceptual transformations, but also into the underlying logic of key political and intellectual controversies of the last two centuries. Studying the ways crisis was experienced, conceptualized, and negotiated can contribute to the understanding of how various visions of time and history shape political thinking and, conversely, how political and social reconfigurations frame our assumptions about temporality and spatiality. A historical region wedged in between various competing imperial centers, East Central Europe has been an area often associated with crisis phenomena by both internal and external observers. Seeking to employ the regional gaze as a vantage point to reflect on issues which are relevant well beyond those countries between the Baltic and the Adriatic, this project is also in dialogue with a number of recent transnational attempts to rethink political and intellectual history with regard to the recurrent epistemological frames that structure the political and cultural debate. This book will thus be useful both for researchers, from the field of intellectual history and numerous adjacent fields, and graduate university students alike.

Football and Fascism

Author : Rahul Kumar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110721503
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Football and Fascism written by Rahul Kumar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the corporativist state, the making of an authoritarian cultural program, and the relation between state institutions and civil society. Besides broadening the scope of existing transnational histories of football, this study also puts into question the conventional geographies and political chronologies adopted in sports history. For his oustanding research, Rahul Kumar won the 2015 “Mário Soares Award - EDP Foundation” for best work in Portuguese history by researchers under 35 and received an honourable mention, also in 2015, in the “CES Award for Young Portuguese speaking Social Scientists”, attributed by the Centre for Social Studies of Coimbra University.

A Companion to American Sport History

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118609409
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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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)

Sporting Performances

Author : Shannon L. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560184
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Performances written by Shannon L. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance. Through a series of intriguing case studies that blur the lines between the realms of politics, sports, physical culture, and performance, this book assumes that sporting performances, much like theatre, serve as barometers, mirrors, and refractors of the culture in which they are enmeshed. Some of the topics include nineteenth-century variety show pugilists, athletes on Broadway, sumo wrestlers, rhythmic gymnasts, and Strava enthusiasts. While analyzing sport through the lens of theatre and performance, this anthology reflects on how physical culture and sports contribute to identity formation and the effects of nuanced imprints of physical activity on the mind, soul, and tongue. Written primarily for those interested in physical fitness, sports, dance, and physical theatre, this interdisciplinary volume is a crucial tool for Performance and Theatre Studies students and those in the fields of Sports Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies more broadly.

The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport

Author : Cesar R. Torres
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408182572
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport written by Cesar R. Torres and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses a perceived lack of clarity in the recent turns toward 'theological interpretation', presenting an understanding of theological interpretation that is highly eclectic.

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

Author : Jens Ljunggren
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031461851
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book A Political History of Sport in Sweden written by Jens Ljunggren and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

Author : Heather L. Dichter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000372235
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe written by Heather L. Dichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history. This anthology adds to the growing corpus of explorations of sport and leisure in late-modern European history from a variety of countries: France, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. With topics covering several different sports and ranging from sport during empire to mega-events, and sport literature to women’s sport attire, the insights provided by this new body of research demonstrate a greater understanding of the connections between sport and society in Europe throughout the long twentieth century. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Metropolis

Author : Ben Wilson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543476
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Metropolis written by Ben Wilson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities.

Brazilian Sports History

Author : Mauricio Drumond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317204905
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Brazilian Sports History written by Mauricio Drumond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studying how sports help us in understanding broader social, cultural, political and economic aspects of society. Barriers of language have often distanced Brazilian historiography from the international community which makes this volume in English especially important as a contribution to the field. In the last decade, Brazil has been on the spotlight of international sporting events and with the staging of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, the world is focused on Brazilian sports, and this book provides a route into understanding it. Brazilian Sports History offers a glimpse into the work of ten Brazilian leading sport historians, exploring topics as diverse as sports in 19th-century Brazil, the political aspects of sport in Brazilian authoritarian regimes, sport and environment, the image of Brazilian women and sport, sport as a Brazilian intangible cultural heritage and the importance of staging mega sporting events in Brazilian politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sports Didactics in Europe

Author : Brigitta Höger
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830991673
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Sports Didactics in Europe written by Brigitta Höger and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2022 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decades, the scientific discipline of Sports Didactics has developed in a heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and differentiation from Sports Pedagogy and other sub-disciplines within sports and educational sciences. The significance of Sports Didactics remains closely connected to the role of the school subject Physical Education as well as Physical Education Teacher Education at universities and colleges. This collected volume provides an overview of the subject understandings, theory landscapes, research contexts and practice models across 24 European countries along five lines of investigation: national historical developments of Sports Didactics, main trends and tendencies of theoretical differentiation, application fields of research and theory formation, recent research perspectives and possible future developments.

The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau

Author : Brian Bridges
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351182307
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau written by Brian Bridges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of China’s two Special Administrative Regions – Hong Kong and Macau – have not received the coverage they deserve either in their historical contexts or since the handovers of control to the People's Republic. By drawing on a multi-national group of scholars and practitioners, this volume makes a unique contribution to the understanding of sports development in greater China. The essays in this anthology examine the evolution of key sports, the hosting of sporting mega-events, the nexus of sports and politics, identity issues, and the role of sporting diplomacy. The chapters provide not only an analysis of colonial legacies but also in-depth accounts of the challenges to and outcomes of sports development in Hong Kong after 1997 and Macau after 1999. The chapters in this book were originally published in various special issues of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sport, Health and the Body in the History of Education

Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317576020
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Health and the Body in the History of Education written by Mark Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians in recent years have paid considerable attention to sport and leisure in the past, and historians of education are no exception. The chapters in this book showcase the breadth and depth of scholarship in this area, bringing new perspectives to bear on the history of physical education in several different European countries. Ranging from schoolgirl cricket in early postwar England to the varying approaches to physical education in the nineteenth-century Netherlands, the contributions all emphasise the importance of physical education to wider conceptions of education for citizenship. A number of chapters tackle issues in gender history, while others focus on the effects – often unintended – of policy-makers and the conflicts that could arise from the imposition of new physical education curricula. Covering England, Scotland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece, this book features the work of both established and emerging scholars, and is an important contribution to the historiography of both education and sport. This book was originally published as a special issue of History of Education.

Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context

Author : Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317587677
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context written by Fan Hong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport facility management and sport social development in the two host countries - China and Britain. It identifies the role of national and local governments, universities and educational institutions in the delivery of elite sport in different cultural and social settings. Aspects of the elite sports system are also analysed, such as elite athletes' training and education, athletes' rights and welfare both during and after an athlete’s career. Finally, the book considers the legacy of the Olympic Games in the areas of sport participation, public diplomacy, education and cultural communication in Europe and China. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.