Beschreibung:
Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century throughout the twentieth century, offering new insights into previously little researched areas of scholarship relating to physical activity and sport.
Foreword 1. Revisiting (and Revising?) Sports Boycotts: From Rugby against South Africa to Soccer in Israel 2. Re-Entering the Sporting World: China's Sponsorship of the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) 3. Opening a Window on Early Twentieth-Century School Sport in Cape Town Society 4. On the Margins: Therapeutic Massage, Physical Education and Physical Therapy Defining a Profession 5. Discourses on the Production of the Athletic Lean Body in Central Europe around 1900 6. Women Boxers: Actresses to Athletes - The Role of Vaudeville in Early Women's Boxing in the USA 7. British Cultural Influence and Japan: Elizabeth Phillips Hughes's Visit for Educational Research in 1901 - 1902