Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Télécharger le livre : Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina
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Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Mark Orton
This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina over the long twentieth century. With the international exploits of players such as Luis Monti, Alfredo Di Stéfano...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972–2020
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International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972–2020
Austin Duckworth
Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Olympic security concerns changed forever following the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : Mexico City's Olympic Games
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Mexico City's Olympic Games
Axel Elías
This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport
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Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport
Georgia Cervin , Claire Nicolas
Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939
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Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939
Benjamin Sacks
This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971
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Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971
Bruce Murray , Richard Parry , Jonty Winch
This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket.  It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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89,66 €
Télécharger le livre : Australian Rules Football During the First World War
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Australian Rules Football During the First World War
Dale Blair , Rob Hess
The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code.The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany
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Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany
Jon Hughes
This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany between the 1920s and the present day. It explores the complex relationship between sport, culture, politics and national...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
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Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
Eilidh Macrae
This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or ‘managed’ by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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52,74 €