Sporting nationalisms :  identity, ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation / 
edited by Mike Cronin and David Mayall. 
 - xiii, 226 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Sport in the global society,  1368-9789 .
 - Sport in the global society. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index. 
<br/><br/>Sports and ethnicity : some introductory remarks / Mike Cronin and David Mayall -- Conformity, diversity and difference in antipodean physical culture : the indelible influence of immigration, ethnicity and race during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, c1788-1918 / Daryl Adair -- Croatia : community, conflict and culture : the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity / Roy Hay -- Basketball as cultural capital : the original Celtics in early twentieth-century New York City / Murry R. Nelson -- Race, nation and authenticity of identity : interrograting the 'everywhere' man (Michael Jordan) and the 'nowhere' man (Ben Johnson) / Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews and Cheryl Cole -- Global sports and patriot games : Rugby Union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945 / Joseph Maguire and Jason Tuck -- Sport and the contestation of cultural and ethnic identities in Scottish society / Joseph M. Bradley -- Racial minorities in a marginalized sport : race, discrimination and integration in British Rugby League football / Tony Collins -- 'When the World Soccer Cup is played on roller skates' : the attempt to make Gaelic Games international : the Meath-Australia matches of 1967-68 / Mike Cronin -- Braveheart betrayed? : Cultural cloning for colonial careers / J.A. Mangan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0714648965 9780714648965 0714644498 9780714644493 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98018870 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nationalism and sports<br/>Ethnicity<br/>Sports--Sociological aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.34  / .S66 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.483