War, sport and the Anzac tradition / Kevin Blackburn.
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TextSeries: Palgrave studies in sport and politics | Palgrave pivotPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: v, 155 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1137487593
- 9781137487599
- 940.46794 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 940.46794 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A557130B |
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| 940.45943092 BAD Sea devil : Count von Luckner in New Zealand and the South Pacific / | 940.4654961 MCG Gallipoli : a guide to New Zealand battlefields and memorials / | 940.46593 MAC The sorrow and the pride : New Zealand war memorials / | 940.46794 BLA War, sport and the Anzac tradition / | 940.47594 REE The other Anzacs : nurses at war, 1914-1918 / | 940.476342162 BAG A diary without dates / | 940.481 SHE Altered memories of the Great War : divergent narratives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. The 'race of athletes' of World War I -- 2. Anzac Day and the language of sport and war -- 3. The 'army of athletes' of World War II -- 4. Anzac and sport after World War II -- Conclusion.
"An Anzac sporting tradition has been manufactured in Australia and become part of national identity. References to war are often found in Australian sport. Commemoration of war is done through sport on the day to remember Australia's war dead Anzac Day. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield. In World War II, again the call for sportsmen to do their duty as young and fit men was strongly felt. The Korean and Vietnam Wars challenged and affirmed notions of an Australian 'soldier sportsman' that had emerged in World War I. The remnants of these early twentieth-century ideas remain in the twenty-first century when sport seems to have appropriated Anzac Day and looms large in the Anzac tradition."--Publisher's website.
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