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



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Autore: Blackburn Kevin Visualizza persona
Titolo: War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition / / by Kevin Blackburn Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 135 p.)
Disciplina: 306.09
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Australia
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.
Titolo autorizzato: War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-48760-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910254788503321
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Serie: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics, . 2365-998X