Sport and the pursuit of war and peace from the nineteenth century to the present : war minus the shooting? /: war minus the shooting?. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Martin Hurcombe, Philip Dine.
• Editors: Hurcombe, Martin; Dine, Philip
• Contents: Introduction: Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus Martin Hurcombe and Philip Dine Part 1: Military and Sporting Cultures 1. Boars as Rebels: Pig-Sticking as a Military Sport for the British Army in India Piyush Kumar Tiwari 2. Reporting the Death of Cycling’s Elite in First World War France Martin Hurcombe 3. Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup Ali Bowes, Alan Bairner, Stuart Whigham and Niamh Kitching 4. Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision and the Logic of War in Esports Nathaniel Zetter Part 2: Play On: Negotiating Sporting Practice in a Time of Conflict 5. ‘ You are absolutely indifferent to the call of your King’: Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand, 1914-18 Greg Ryan 6. ‘Flannelled fools are strutting about tennis courts’: Lawn Tennis in Britain during the Great War Robert J. Lake 7. Occupied Scandinavian Brother Nations: Danish and Norwegian Sports during World War II Hans Bonde and Matti Goksøyr 8. The General’s Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship during Colombia’s La Violencia, 1953-1958 Manuel Morales Fontanilla Part 3: Sports Culture and the Legacy of War 9. ‘What Demobilised Men Want’: Physical Culture and Post-War British Masculinity Conor Heffernan 10. The ‘Great Game’ and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish-British Relations in the Olympic movement Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire 11. The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War Philip Seaton 12. Remembering ‘Our Boys’: Football, War and Masculinity in the British Military Spectacular Daniel Fitzpatrick Part 4: Playing for Peace: Cultural Diplomacy or Pacification? 13. Overcoming Antipathy for Internationalism? Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games Luke J. Harris 14. War and Sport in ‘French’ Algeria: From Pacification to Decolonization Philip Dine 15. ‘A Fine Example of Brotherhood and Sportsmanship’: The 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the Era of the ‘Little Détente’ Sam Schelfhout and Thomas M. Hunt 16. Replacing Bullets with Balls: Sport for Peace in the FARC Demobilization and Reincorporation Camps Peter J. Watson
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (370 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.48309; Sports -- Social aspects -- History; Sports -- Sociological aspects; Nationalism and sports; Military sports; War and society; Military history, Modern -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000848588; 9781000848557
• Related ISBNs: 9781032125978
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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