Sport and the British World, 1900-1930 [electronic resource] : Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond /
Nielsen, E.author.
This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
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Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Amateurism; Recent developments in the historiography of amateur sport; Nationalism and Britishness in sporting identity; The British World; Chapter breakdown; 2 The Commercialisation of Australasian Amateur Athletics; The role of finance in amateur sport; Club events; Intercolonial representative contests; The importance of tours in Australian culture; The Shrubb-Duffey tour; The Rowley tour; Conclusion; 3 The Role of Race and Class in Defining the Australasian Amateur Community
The status of Indigenous athletes in AustralasiaThe relationship between team sports and amateurism; The Australasian Union and team sports; The Miller and Sparrow cases; Conclusions; 4 'Imperialism and Nationalism in Action'? Reconfiguring the Athletic Relationship with Britain; 'British History'; Thwarted Britishness: the Australasian relationship with English amateur organisations; Better Britain: the Australasian Union and the sympathetic English; Austral(as)ia's Empire: the Australasian Union and like-minded English officials; The 1911 Festival of Empire and notions of Britishness
Conclusion5 North American Cousins: Relations with the United States and Canada; North America and Australasia; The Australasian Union and the United States of America; The Australasian Union and Canada; Tensions with Canada; The reassertion of conservatism in Canada; Conclusion; 6 A Question of Nationalism? The Dissolution of the Australasian Amateur Athletic Relationship; 'Australasia' and the 'Tasman World'; Sport and Australasia; The Australasian Olympic Team; Nationalism and the Australasian Union; The dissolution of the Australasian Union; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes
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This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
Imperialism.
Social policy.
Civilization-History.
World history.
Great Britain-History.
Islands of the Pacific-History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social Policy.
Cultural History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Australasian History.