Sport in Europe
Subtitle: politics, class, gender
By: edited by J.A. Mangan.
Contributors: Mangan, J. A.
Series: The European sports history review ;; v. 1
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Sports -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History; Sports -- Europe -- Sociological aspects -- History
Description: "This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationship with politics, gender and class."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women and football : a contradiction? : The beginnings of women's football in four European countries / Gertrud Pfister ... [et al.]; title: Cultural differentiation, shared aspiration : the Entente Cordiale of international ladies football, 1920-45 / Alethea Melling; title: A contribution to the history of Jewish sport and education in Poland : the city of Poznań, 1904-39 / Teresa Ziólkowska; title: English elementary education revisited and revised : drill and athleticism in tandem / J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey; title: Football's missing link : the real story or the evolution of modern football / Adrian Harvey; title: "Touched pitch and been shockingly defiled" : football, class, social Darwinism and decadence in England, 1880-1914 / R.W. Lewis; title: Organised memories : the construction of sporting traditions in the German Democratic Republic / Tara Magdalinski; title: Sport and the Scottish office in the twentieth century : the control of a social problem / Callum G. Brown; title: Sport and the Scottish office : the promotion of a social and gender policy / Callum G. Brown; title: Sport in the Slavic world before Communism : cultural traditions and national functions / Wojciech Liponski.