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Serious Sport
With essays covering all aspects of sports history, this volume is a tribute to the scholarship of Professor Tony Mangan. Regarded by many as a pioneer and mentor, Professor Mangan's foundational work has sustained the field for decades.
Beyond Boycotts
Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events "beyond boycotts"many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States, but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an "apolitic" field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs. Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.
BORN DEMON GOD CHAPTER 30
BORN DEMON GOD CHAPTER 30 Ning Xiaoxuan stared at Li Zhonglou who was kneeling on the ground, and said coldly: - My sister and you are both disciples of the Heavenly Emperor Mountain, I didn't expect you to intentionally kill her, doing this kind of cruel thing to your fellow disciples, you must be severely punished! You stay here and kneel for three days! Consider it as atonement! - Ning Xiaoxuan, you dare to bully me like this, you are dead for sure! Li Zhonglou gritted his teeth and said. - I am dead for sure? If it weren't for the fact that my sister is still alive, otherwise, you would be dead for sure today! Although Ning Xiaoxuan was very angry, he had not lost his mind. Now is not the time to kill Li Zhonglou! Even if he wanted to kill Li Zhonglou, he could not let others know that the one who killed him was Ning Xiaoxuan! Letting Li Zhonglou kneel in front of everyone, to him, would make him feel much more uncomfortable and humiliated than killing him!
Manufacturing Masculinity
This tribute to Professor J. A. (Tony) Mangan is well-deserved. Professor Mangan is a path-breaking scholar. Mangan's impact is measurable in the rarest of ways: institution-building. Under his leadership, a globally situated team has opened a new relationship between sport and the academy and I recommend Manufacturing Masculinity: The Mangan Oeuvre -- Global Reflections on J.A. Mangan's Studies of Masculinity, Imperialism and Militarism as, yet again, it offers a unique consideration of the relationship between sport and academy. Professor John D. Kelly - University of Chicago Professor Mangan has since the early 1980s been one of the foremost international scholars within his chosen field ...
A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC - AD 24)
This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China’s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the literary forms and intellectual background of traditional China, such as writers, scholars, historians and philosophers, but also those officials who administered the empire, and the military leaders who fought in civil warfare or with China’s neighbours. The work draws on primary historical sources as interpreted by Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars and as supplemented by archaeological finds and inscriptions. By devoting extensive entries to each of the emperors the author provides the reader with the necessary historical context and gives insight into the dynastic disputes and their far-reaching consequences. No comparable work exists for this important period of Chinese history. Without exaggeration a real must for historians of both China and other cultures.
India and the Olympics
The Olympic movement, including the relevant records and statistics, provides a unique prism to understand the complex evolution of modern Indian society. Drawing on hitherto unused archival sources, this book examines the relations between India's place in the Olympic movement and the country's quest for a national and international identity.
Women, Sport, Society
During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have made contributions to physical education, dance and sport that go far beyond being teachers, athletes and coaches. They have created and implemented an astonishing variety of programs intended to serve the needs of large numbers of children and youth sometimes organizing student health services, as well as chairing departments of physical education. They have worked as directors of sport, physical e...
Diplomatic Games
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. The NAACP thus worked to alter existing prejudices through the production of art that countered racist depictions of African Americans, focusing its efforts not only on changing the attitudes of the white middle class but also on encouraging racial pride and a sense of identity in the black community. Art for Equality ex...
Sport Across Asia
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula capture the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures. These case studies bring together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, various area and post-colonial studies.
BORN DEMON GOD CHAPTER 31
BORN DEMON GOD CHAPTER 31 The Gui Yuan Dan is a human-level pill, of immeasurable value, equivalent to several thousand-year-old magical herbs. The blood of a Middle Heavenly Realm demon beast is also a rare treasure in human civilization, it can strengthen the blood and body of cultivators. The Earth Spirit is the crystallization of the earth, it needs to be gestated in the earth's veins for tens of millions of years to condense into form, it is extremely precious. At this moment, Zhao Feng wanted to simultaneously use these three types of spirit beast pills to attack the third realm of the Heavenly Human Realm - the Upper Heavenly Realm. He first used the Gui Yuan Dan. The human-level pill exploded, the pill energy surged throughout his body, covering Ning Xiaochuan's body within a range of several dozen meters, turning into a layer of mist. Ning Xiaochuan's bones, flesh, and internal organs crazily absorbed the pill energy and transferred it into his Dao Yuan.
