Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics" - Palgrave Macmillan


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Télécharger le livre :  International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972–2020
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International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972–2020


Austin Duckworth


Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Olympic security concerns changed forever following the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic...

Parution : 2022-08-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Mexico City's Olympic Games
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Mexico City's Olympic Games


Axel Elías


This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for...

Parution : 2021-09-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport
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Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport


Georgia Cervin , Claire Nicolas


Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival...

Parution : 2019-11-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939
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Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939


Benjamin Sacks


This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest...

Parution : 2019-10-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971
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Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971


Bruce Murray , Richard Parry , Jonty Winch


This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket.  It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial...

Parution : 2018-09-01
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Australian Rules Football During the First World War
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Australian Rules Football During the First World War


Dale Blair , Rob Hess


The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code.The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it...

Parution : 2017-10-16
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany
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Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany


Jon Hughes


This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany between the 1920s and the present day. It explores the complex relationship between sport, culture, politics and national...

Parution : 2017-09-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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