Серия "Sport in World History"

Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century. <br> <br> Emerging as an imperial instrument...

ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company&#39;s sports division is behind some of network television&#39;s most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology <I>Wide World of Sports</I>, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with <I>Monday Night Football</I>, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis...

Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe’s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature. Denning probes the modernist self-definition of...

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the <i>jogo bonito</i>. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian.<br> <br> Yet...

Baseball has been Japan&#39;s most popular sport for over a century.&#160;<I>The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers</I> analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers.&#160;For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country&rsquo;s most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants.&#160;Despite a largely losing record,...