Sport and national identity in the post-war world /
[edited by] Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter.
- viii, 200 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Sport and national identity in contemporary England / 'Your boys took one hell of a beating!' English football and British decline, c.1950-80 / 'Everyday I wake up and I thank the Lord I'm Welsh': Sport and national identity in post-war Wales / 'Cry for Us, Argentina': Sport and national identity in late twentieth-century Scotland / Who are the boys in green? Irish identity and soccer in the Republic of Ireland / 'One Nation, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal?' Sport and national identity in South Africa / Cricket and a crisis of identity in the Anglophone Caribbean / Baseball and American exceptionalism / Black against gold: New Zealand-Australia sporting rivalry in the modern era / Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter -- Martin Polley -- Dilwyn Porter -- Martin Johnes -- Ronald Kowalski -- Michael Holmes and David Storey -- Marc Keech -- Keith A. P. Sandiford -- Francis D. Cogliano -- Adrian Smith. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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Nationalism and sports--History--20th century. Sports--Social aspects--History--20th century.