Sport in the Classroom
Sport in the Classroom

Author: David L. Vanderwerken

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780838633540

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A collection of essays that focuses on teaching sport-related classes in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed to aid university faculty in proposing or revising courses and features sample syllabi, assignment instructions, and examinations in the appendix to each essay.

The Games Ethic and Imperialism
The Games Ethic and Imperialism

Author: J.A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135225826

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This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism.

Mapping an Empire of American Sport
Mapping an Empire of American Sport

Author: Mark Dyreson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317980360

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Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe’s masses in a long series of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion. Sport also contributed to American efforts to assimilate immigrant populations. Even in American games such as baseball and football, sport has also served as an agent of resistance to American imperial designs among the nations of the Western hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. As the twenty-first century begins, sport continues to shape American visions of a global empire as well as framing resistance to American imperial designs. Mapping an Empire of American Sport chronicles the dynamic tensions in the role of sport as an element in both the expansion of and the resistance to American power, and in sport’s dual role as an instrument for assimilation and adaptation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World
Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World

Author: John J. Macaloon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1317997921

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This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized. First codified by British Christian Socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, explicitly religious forms of the ideology have persistently re-emerged over ensuing decades: secularized, essentialized, and normalized versions of the ethos - the public school spirit, the games ethic, moral masculinity, the strenuous life - came to dominate and to spread rapidly across class, status, and gender lines. These developments have been appropriated by the state to support imperial military and colonial projects. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century apologists and critics alike widely understood Muscular Christianity to be a key engine of British colonialism. This text demonstrates the need to re-evaluate the entire history of Muscular Christianity comes chiefly from contemporary post-colonial studies. The papers explore fascinating case materials from Canada, the U.S., India, Japan, Papua, New Guinea, the Spanish Caribbean, and in Britain in a joint effort to outline a truly international, post-colonial sport history. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

‘Manufactured’ Masculinity
‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

Author: J. A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1317984773

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'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known, at the zenith of its control and which has had a significant influence in the formation of the modern world. This authoritative study of the making of British imperial masculinity shines light on the period of Muscular Christianity, Social Darwinism and Militarism as meshed ideological instruments of both power and persuasion. This magisterial study reveals the extraordinary and paramount influence of games fields as the 'machine tools' in an 'industrial process' with the schools as 'workshops' containing 'cultural conveyor-belts' for the production of robust, committed and confident servants of empire, and templates for imperial reproduction in imperial possessions. Mainly on efficient 'production belt' playing fields of the privileged minds were moulded, attitudes were constructed and bodies shaped - for imperial manhood. Earlier 'manliness' was metamorphosized, morality was redefined and militarism at the high point of imperial grandeur was an adjunct. Professor Mangan outlines this unique process of cultural conditioning with a unique range of evidence and analysis. This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Four in Camp
Four in Camp

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13:

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"Four in Camp" presents an exciting story of the big four- Nelson, Dan, Bob, and Tom, spending a summer camping in the New Hampshire woods. A must-read adventure tale for children by American novelist Ralph Henry Barbour, who wrote some famous works of fiction for boys in the early 1900s. His stories teach the significance of sports and teamwork.