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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/83
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism and sports - History - 20th century; Sports - Social aspects - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: PorterDilwyn <1947-> SmithAdrian <1952->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sport and national identity in the post-war world
• ISBN: 1-134-45692-1; 1-134-45693-X; 1-280-07952-5; 9786610079520; 0-203-64284-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783964503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II