Sport, war and society in Australia and New Zealand. / edited by Martin Crotty and Robert Hess.

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113867706X
9781138677067

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306.4830994 23

Contents:

1. Introduction: Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand / Martin Crotty and Rob Hess -- 2. Exploding the myths of sport and the Great War: a first salvo / Wray Vamplew -- 3. Australasia's 1912 olympians and the Great War / Bruce Coe -- 4. Missing in action? New perspectives on the origins and diffusion of women's football in Australia during the Great War / Rob Hess -- 5. Fronting up: Australian soccer and the First World War / Ian Syson -- 6. The role of sport for australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War / Kate Ariotti and Martin Crotty -- 7. Men who defaulted in the greatest game of all: sport, conscientious objectors and military defaulters in New Zealand 1916 - 1923 / Greg Ryan -- 8. 'Carry on': the response of the Victorian Football League to the challenges of World War II / Bruce Kennedy -- 9. W. N. 'Bill' Carson: double All Black, military cross recipient / Lynn Charles McConnell -- 10. The controversial Cec Pepper and the Australian services cricket team: the test career that never was / Peter Crossing

Summary: "Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes – and some individuals – while others have blossomed in the changed circumstances. The chapters in this book range widely over the broad subject of Australian and New Zealand sport and their relation to the cataclysmic world wars of the first half of the twentieth century. They examine the mythology of the links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting individuals, and individual sportspeople. Revealing complex and often unpredictable effects of total wars upon individuals and social groups which as always, created chaos, and the sporting field offered no exception. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport." --Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	306.4830994 SPO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A553565B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes – and some individuals – while others have blossomed in the changed circumstances. The chapters in this book range widely over the broad subject of Australian and New Zealand sport and their relation to the cataclysmic world wars of the first half of the twentieth century. They examine the mythology of the links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting individuals, and individual sportspeople. Revealing complex and often unpredictable effects of total wars upon individuals and social groups which as always, created chaos, and the sporting field offered no exception. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport." --Publisher's website.

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