Politics and Culture of Modern Sports

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and domestic and foreign policy. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on politics.

List of contents

Chapter 1: British Sports and National Identity in Nineteenth Century Europe
Chapter 2: Sports and Construction of American National Identity, and the Export of Baseball Abroad
Chapter 3: Sports in the Service of Fascism and Communism in the Interwar Period.
Chapter 4: Sports and the Cold War
Chapter 5: Communist Sport Rivalries and the Role of Sport in the German Question
Chapter 6: Sports and the Reconstruction of Postwar Western Europe and Japan
Chapter 7: Sports, Decolonization, and Nation Building
Chapter 8: Globalization and Competing Sporting Identities
Chapter 9: The Politics and Economics of Hosting International Sporting Events

About the author

Sheldon Anderson is professor of modern European history and international studies at Miami University.

Summary

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and domestic and foreign policy. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on politics.

Product details

• Authors: Sheldon Anderson, Anderson Sheldon, Reilly
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498517973
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1797-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, History, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, 21st Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Sociology: sport & leisure, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Sociology: sport and leisure, United States of America, USA