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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462614003321

Autore

Crawford Scott

Titolo

Serious Sport [[electronic resource] ] : J.A. Mangan's Contribution to the History of Sport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Sport in the Global Society ; ; v.20

Disciplina

796.09

796/.09

Soggetti

Mangan

Mangan, J. A

Sports - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; 'SERIOUS SPORT': J.A.Mangan's Contribution to theHistory of Sport; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Series Editor's Foreword; 1 Editing with J.A.Mangan; 4 Direct and Indirect Influence: J.A.Mangan and the Victorian Middle Classes: Major Revisionist in the History of Sport; 5 Pathfinding and Pathmaking: J.A.Mangan and Imperialism, Education and Socialization; 6 Pointing the Way-Antipodean Responses to J.A.Mangan's Athleticism and Related Studies: Scotch College, Melbourne, in the Inter-war Years; 7 Sport and Gender: J.A.Mangan, Pioneer of Both Projects and Publications

8 Sport, Society and Militarism-In Pursuit of the Democratic Soldier: J.A.Mangan's Exploration of Militarism9 Sport in the Global Society: Shaping the Domain of Sport Studies; 2 J.A.Mangan and The International Journal of the History of Sport; 10 J.A.Mangan: Innovating Down South American Way; 3 An Ever-Widening Sphere: J.A.Mangan's Contributions to an Increasingly 'Global' History of Sport; 11 East Meets West and West Meets East: Celebrating The International Journal of the History of Sport; 12 Sensitive Supervision: Student Appreciations; Select Bibliography of J.A.Mangan

Notes on ContributorsIndex



Sommario/riassunto

Trial-blazer and mentor, Professor J.A. Mangan is a distinguished scholar in the fields of sports history whose work has inspired a generation of historians and social scientists across the globe. His seminal book on athleticism and imperialism commanded attention and applause from a broad range of historians and social scientists across the globe. His seminal work on athleticism and imperialism commanded attention and applause from a broad range of historians. It opened new horizons of inquiry providing the field with a richly perceptive study of hegemony and patronage, of cultural assimilati