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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254788503321

Autore

Blackburn Kevin

Titolo

War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition / / by Kevin Blackburn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-48760-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 135 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics, , 2365-998X

Disciplina

306.09

Soggetti

Civilization—History

Social history

Military history

History, Modern

Islands of the Pacific—History

Sports

Cultural History

Social History

History of Military

Modern History

Australasian History

Popular Science in Sports

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

An Anzac sporting tradition has been manufactured in Australia and become part of national identity. References to war are often found in Australian sport. Commemoration of war is done through sport on the day to remember Australia's war dead – Anzac Day. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield. In World War II, again the call for sportsmen to do their duty as young and fit men was strongly felt. The Korean and



Vietnam Wars challenged and affirmed notions of an Australian 'soldier sportsman' that had emerged in World War I. The remnants of these early twentieth-century ideas remain in the twenty-first century when sport seems to have appropriated Anzac Day and looms large in the Anzac tradition.