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This book examines the complex interplay between sport, war and society in Australia and New Zealand in the first half of the twentieth century. Chapters examine the mythology of the links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting individuals, and individual sportspersons, revealing complex and often unpredictable effects on individuals and groups.

This collection offers a scholarly introduction into the myriad social functions sport performed during the Yugoslav socialist project. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Olympic Aspirations is the companion volume to the well received Olympic Legacies and provides original, candid and constructive contributions to the pursuit of the fulfilment of Olympic Idealism in action. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

This volume illuminates the evolving political, economic, environmental and cultural implications of sport in society. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of The History of Sport.

This collection offers new insights on the role of sport in defining and shaping local, regional, national, and international cultures in the Americas. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

This collection is an important marker in research associated with the history and culture of some traditional sports in several Asian countries. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.

This book explores several cultural and historical paths intertwined in the genesis and development of sport and physical activities within colonial and postcolonial contexts. As far as youth organizations and Western-based sports are concerned, the Independencies political split needs to be reconsidered, from a cultural perspective with practices overlapping spatial, chronological and epistemological borders. When looking at the variety of practices, the colonial legacies and the ensuing migration journeys through a global perspective, there is a need to understand the diverse ways of composing and building the postcolonial sport worlds. Multiculturalism (South Africa, France, Algeria), transnational journeys (Pacific Islands), rebuilding of national identities through sporting institutions (Ireland, West Africa), racialization of the society (Rwanda, South Africa), gender control (from the West-East to the North-South gap), sportization of traditional/old games (Americas), and so on. Following the various studies shaping this book, the ambivalence of sporting and physical activitiesΓÇÖ paths comes up. It is apparent these trajectories have generated a mixed feeling of adhesion and repulsion towards Western hegemonies in postcolonial societies.

Going from geography to political science, from sports history to urban and transport history, the book brings together complementary studies on the interrelation between sport and urban space in a European context. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

The British World and the Five Rings constitutes the first history of the former British Empire's engagement with the Olympic Games. It focuses not only on Britain and her Dominions, but on the Empire as a whole. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book explores several cultural and historical paths intertwined in the genesis and development of sport and physical activities within colonial and postcolonial contexts.

The book explores the significant, poignant and fascinating role of sport in the making of martial masculinity during, and its remaking after,the Great War. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Mapping an Empire of American Sport charts the expansion of and the resistance to American power in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim. It provides a novel and sweeping historical roadmap to the struggles over sporting globalisation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

This book examines the complex interplay between sport, war and society in Australia and New Zealand in the first half of the twentieth century. Chapters examine the mythology of the links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting individuals, and individual sportspersons, revealing complex and often unpredictable effects on individuals and groups.

Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. This comprehensive collection examines the multifaceted profile of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement and presents new insights drawn from a variety of research projects. Historical and political dimensions of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement are addressed, along with educational, ethical, commercial and sociological perspectives. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.