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008			150917t20152015mdua b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2015952400
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781498517959
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020			_a9781498517959 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)919858879
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050	0	0	_aGV 706.35 _b.A59 2015
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100	1		_aAnderson, Sheldon R., _d1951- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe politics and culture of modern sports / _cSheldon Anderson.
264		1	_aLanham, Maryland : _bLexington Books, _c2015
264		4	_c2015
300			_axxi, 373 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 341-361) and index.
505	0		_aBritish sports and national identity in the nineteenth-century Europe -- Sports and construction of American national identity, and the export of baseball abroad -- Sports in the service of fascism and communism in the interwar period -- Sports and the Cold War -- Communist sport rivalries and the role of sport in the German question -- Sports and reconstruction of postwar western Europe and Japan -- Sports, decolonization, and nation building -- Globalization and competing sporting identities -- The politics and economics of hosting international sporting events.
520			_aThis study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on domestic politics and foreign affairs. Teams competing in international sporting events provide people a shared national experience and a means to differentiate "us" from "them." Particular attention is paid to the transnational influences on the construction of sporting communities, and why some areas resisted dominant sporting cultures while others adopted them and changed them to fit their particular political or societal needs. A recurrent theme of the book is that as much as they try, politicians have been frustrated in their attempts to achieve political ends through sport. The book provides a basis for understanding the political, economic, social, and diplomatic contexts in which these games were played, and to present issues that spur further discussion and research.
650		0	_aSports _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aSports and state.
650		0	_aInternational relations.
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