The British World and the Five Rings: Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement (Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138909580 ISBN 13: 9781138909588

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The British World and the Five Rings constitutes the first history of the former British Empire's engagement with the Olympic Games. It focuses not only on Britain and her Dominions, but on the Empire as a whole. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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Erik Nielsen is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University (Australia). He is the author of Sport and the British World, 1900-1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Matthew P. Llewellyn is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton, co-director of the Centre for the Socio-Cultural Sport and Olympic Research, associate editor of the Journal of Sport History, and the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of sport.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138909580
• ISBN 13: 9781138909588
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134
• Herausgeber: Nielsen Erik, Llewellyn Matthew
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland