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Sport and national identity in the post-war world / [edited by] Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: viii, 200 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415283000
  • 0415283019 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.34 .S62 2004
Contents:
Introduction / Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter -- 1. Sport and national identity in contemporary England / Martin Polley -- 2. 'Your boys took one hell of a beating!' English football and British decline, c.1950-80 / Dilwyn Porter -- 3. 'Everyday I wake up and I thank the Lord I'm Welsh': Sport and national identity in post-war Wales / Martin Johnes -- 4. 'Cry for Us, Argentina': Sport and national identity in late twentieth-century Scotland / Ronald Kowalski -- 5. Who are the boys in green? Irish identity and soccer in the Republic of Ireland / Michael Holmes and David Storey -- 6. 'One Nation, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal?' Sport and national identity in South Africa / Marc Keech -- 7. Cricket and a crisis of identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Keith A. P. Sandiford -- 8. Baseball and American exceptionalism / Francis D. Cogliano -- 9. Black against gold: New Zealand-Australia sporting rivalry in the modern era / Adrian Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter -- 1. Sport and national identity in contemporary England / Martin Polley -- 2. 'Your boys took one hell of a beating!' English football and British decline, c.1950-80 / Dilwyn Porter -- 3. 'Everyday I wake up and I thank the Lord I'm Welsh': Sport and national identity in post-war Wales / Martin Johnes -- 4. 'Cry for Us, Argentina': Sport and national identity in late twentieth-century Scotland / Ronald Kowalski -- 5. Who are the boys in green? Irish identity and soccer in the Republic of Ireland / Michael Holmes and David Storey -- 6. 'One Nation, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal?' Sport and national identity in South Africa / Marc Keech -- 7. Cricket and a crisis of identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Keith A. P. Sandiford -- 8. Baseball and American exceptionalism / Francis D. Cogliano -- 9. Black against gold: New Zealand-Australia sporting rivalry in the modern era / Adrian Smith.

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