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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783964503321

Titolo

Sport and national identity in the post-war world / / edited by Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-45692-1

1-134-45693-X

1-280-07952-5

9786610079520

0-203-64284-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterDilwyn <1947->

SmithAdrian <1952->

Disciplina

306.4/83

Soggetti

Nationalism and sports - History - 20th century

Sports - Social aspects - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Sport and national identity in contemporary England; 'Your boys took one hell of a beating!' English football and British decline, c.1950  80; 'Every day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm Welsh': Sport and national identity in post-war Wales; 'Cry for Us, Argentina': Sport and national identity in late twentieth-century Scotland; Who are the boys in green? Irish identity and soccer in the Republic of Ireland; 'One Nation, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal?' Sport and national identity in South Africa

Cricket and a crisis of identity in the Anglophone CaribbeanBaseball and American exceptionalism; Black against gold: New Zealand  Australia sporting rivalry in the modern era; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a broad range of international case-studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped contemporary sport.