More than Cricket and Football - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More than Cricket and Football write by Joel Nathan Rosen. This book was released on 2016-12-02. More than Cricket and Football available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Sean Bell, Benn L. Bongang, Joel S. Franks, Silvana Vilodre Goellner, Annette R. Hofmann, Dong Jinxia, Cláudia Samuel Kessler, Jack Lule, Li Luyang, Mark Panek, Roberta J. Park, Gamage Harsha Perera, Joel Nathan Rosen, Viral Shah, Maureen M. Smith, Nancy E. Spencer, Dominic Standish, Tim B. Swartz, Dan Travis, Theresa Walton-Fisette, and Zhong Yijing Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport’s international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star’s own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport’s most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chambers's Edinburgh Journal write by . This book was released on 1875. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts write by . This book was released on 1875. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chambers's Journal
Chambers's Journal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chambers's Journal write by . This book was released on 1910. Chambers's Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
'The Army Isn't All Work'
'The Army Isn't All Work' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'The Army Isn't All Work' write by James D. Campbell. This book was released on 2016-03-16. 'The Army Isn't All Work' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an anachronistic and frequently ineffective organization to being perhaps the most professional and highly trained army in the world. Historians have tended to view that transformation through the successive political reform efforts of those years, but have largely overlooked the ways in which the Army transformed itself from within. This change was effected through the modernization of training, operational and leadership doctrines. The adoption of formal physical training and organized games played a central part in this process. With its origins in elite public schools and upper-class country homes, the Army's philosophy of Athleticism was a part of the ethos of 'muscular Christianity' widely held in contemporary British institutions. Under the potent influence of this philosophy, military sport went from a means of keeping soldiers from drink and the officers from duty, to an institutionalized form of combat training. This book documents the origins and development of formal physical training in the late Victorian Army and the ways in which the Army's gymnastic training evolved into a vital building block of the process of turning a civilian into a fighting man. It also assesses the nature and extent of British military sport, particularly regimental sports, during this period of evolution for the Army. Through an investigation of the Army's physical culture during this dynamic period, one can gain an understanding of not only how the Army's change from within occurred, but also of some of the important links between the Army and its parent society.
