A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age

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A cultural history of sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global cultural force and one the deepest ways in which individual nations express their myths, beliefs, values, traditions, and realities. A Cultural History of Sport presents the first extensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: The purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS SERIES PREFACE Introduction: One Hundred Years of Sport in Modern Society, 1920–2020 THE SPORTING WORLD, 1920–45 SPECTATOR SPORT BRITISH SPORT AND IMPERIALISM THE OLYMPIC GAMES SPORT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR SPORT SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR OLYMPIC DIPLOMACY SOCCER IN THE POSTWAR ERA SPECTATOR SPORT IN THE USA BIG-TIME AMERICAN INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT SPORT AND GENDER THE UNDERSIDE OF SPORT CONCLUSION CHAPTER ONE The Purpose of Sport DOES SPORT HAVE A PURPOSE? AN OBJECTION THE INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER OF SPORT THE INTERNAL PURPOSE OF SPORT THE EXTERNAL PURPOSE(S) OF SPORT THE HYBRID INTERNAL PURPOSE(S) OF SPORT CONCLUSION NOTES CHAPTER TWO Sporting Time and Sporting Space THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT STADIUMS SPORTING SPACE IN AN ERA OF NATIONALISM AND GLOBAL CONFLICT RISE OF POSTWAR SPORTS VENUES IMPACT OF MODERN MEDIA AND CONSUMERISM HIDDEN COSTS OF MODERN STADIUMS SPORTING TIME IN THE GLOBALIZING TWENTIETH CENTURY REIMAGINING SPORTING SPACE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONCLUSION CHAPTER THREE Products, Training, and Technology INTRODUCTION SPECTATOR PRODUCTS PLAYER PRODUCTS ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATIONS DARK PRODUCTS GLOBALIZATION CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOUR Rules and Order THE CONSTITUTIVE RULES OF SPORTS AMATEURISM ALLOWING WOMEN ON THE FIELD OPENING GAMES TO NON-WHITES TEACHING CULTURAL VALUES CONCLUSION CHAPTER FIVE Conflict and Accommodation POLITICS AND PROTEST RELIGION, GAMBLING, AND VIOLENCE BOXING AND BLOOD SPORTS PLAYING AND WATCHING SPORTING RIVALS, SPORTING FRIENDS SPORT, UNITY, AND COOPERATION CHAPTER SIX Inclusion, Exclusion, and Segregation EXCLUSION: SPORT AS AN AGENT OF SEGREGATION “SEPARATE GAMES”: SPORT AS AN AVENUE OF RESISTANCE BARRIER-BREAKING ATHLETES AS SYMBOLS OF CHANGE DESEGREGATION AND INCLUSION IN SPORT CONCLUSION CHAPTER SEVEN Minds, Bodies, and Identities INTRODUCTION: WAR BODIES, SPORTING BODIES IDENTITIES INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS NATIONAL AND LOCAL ALLEGIANCES MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES MINDS AND EMOTIONS ATHLETES AND MORALITY FAITH SEXUALIZED BODIES, HEALTHY BODIES, BROKEN BODIES CHAPTER EIGHT Representation SPORTING FICTION FILM AND SPORT MUSIC AND SPORTS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX