Historicizing the Pan-American Games
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the Western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. At the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada, 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of the Olympic movement across the Americas, a stage for competing ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city infrastructural stimulus and economic development. Surprisingly, until this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity from a scholarly viewpoint.
Historicizing the Pan-American Games presents twelve original articles with topics ranging from the origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political, cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western hemisphere. This innovative volume makes a significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic sport, and sport in the Western hemisphere.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Bruce Kidd, a former Olympian, has written extensively about the history and politics of the modern Olympic Movement and international sport. He is currently Vice-President and Principal, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Canada.
Cesar R. Torres is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology and a former president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport.
Sport in the Global Society: Historical Perspectives
Series Editors: Mark Dyreson and Thierry Terret
Titles in the Series
Historicizing the Pan-American Games
Edited by Bruce Kidd and Cesar R. Torres
Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elisas
Dominique Bodin and Luc Robne
Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand
Edited by Martin Crotty and Robert Hess
Global Perspectives on Sport and Physical Cultures
Edited by Annette Hofmann, Gerald Gems and Maureen Smith
Games and Sporting Events in History
Edited by Annette Hofmann, Gerald Gems and Maureen Smith
Brazilian Sports History
Edited by Maurcio Drumond and Victor Andrade de Melo
A Global History of Doping in Sport
Drugs, Policy, and Politics
Edited by John Gleaves and Thomas Hunt
American National Pastimes A History
Edited by Mark Dyreson and Jaime Schultz
Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context
From Beijing to London
Edited by Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang
East Asia, Geopolitics and the 2012 London Games
Edited by J. A. Mangan and Marcus Chu
Encoding the Olympics
The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide
Edited by Luo Qing and Giuseppe Richeri
Gymnastics, a Transatlantic Movement
From Europe to America
Edited by Gertrud Pfister
London, Europe and the Olympic Games
Historical Perspectives
Edited by Thierry Terret
Manufactured Masculinity
Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism
J.A. Mangan
Mapping an Empire of American Sport
Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation
Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan and Roberta J. Park
Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism
Blooding The Martial Male
J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
Edited by J.A. Mangan and Mark Dyreson
Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim
Edited by J.A. Mangan and Fan Hong
Representing the Nation
Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Claire and Keith Brewster
Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games
Matthew Llewellyn
Soft Power Politics Football and Baseball in the Western Pacific Rim
Edited by Rob Hess, Peter Horton and J. A. Mangan
Sport and Emancipation of European Women
The Struggle for Self-fulfilment
Edited by Gigliola Gori and J. A. Mangan
Sport and Nationalism in Asia
Power, Politics and Identity
Edited by Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang
Sport and Revolutionaries
Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism
Edited by John Nauright and David K. Wiggins
Sport and Urban Space in Europe
Facilities, Industries, Identities
Edited by Thierry Terret and Sandra Heck
Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece
Edited by Eleni Fournaraki and Zinon Papakonstantinou
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
New Perspectives
Edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou
Sport in the Middle East
Edited by Fan Hong
Sport in the Pacific
Colonial and Postcolonial Consequencies
Edited by C. Richard King
Sport, Literature, Society
Cultural Historical Studies
Edited by Alexis Tadi, J. A. Mangan and Supriya Chaudhuri
Sport, Militarism and the Great War
Martial Manliness and Armageddon
Edited by Thierry Terret and J. A. Mangan
Sport Past and Present in South Africa
(Trans)forming the Nation
Edited by Scarlet Cornelissen and Albert Grundlingh
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games
Assessing the 30-Year Legacy
Edited by Matthew Llewellyn, John Gleaves and Wayne Wilson
The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for The Middle Kingdom Reborn
Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol
Edited by J. A. Mangan, Marcus P. Chu and Dong Jinxia
The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 19291939
Politicians in Pursuit of Peace
Penelope Kissoudi
The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China
Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics
Edited by Kevin Caffrey
The History of Motor Sport
A Case Study Analysis
Edited by David Hassan
The New Geopolitics of Sport in East Asia
Edited by William Kelly and J.A. Mangan
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China
Communists and Champions
Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang
The Politics of the Male Body in Sport
The Danish Involvement
Hans Bonde
The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States
Cathedrals of Sport
Edited by Mark Dyreson and Robert Trumpbour
The Triple Asian Olympics
Asia Rising the Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem
Edited by J.A. Mangan, Sandra Collins and Gwang Ok
The Triple Asian Olympics Asia Ascendant
Media, Politics and Geopolitics
Edited by J. A. Mangan, Luo Qing and Sandra Collins
The Visual in Sport
Edited by Mike Huggins and Mike OMahony
What is the Future of Sport History in Academia?
Edited by Duncan Stone, John Hughson and Rob Ellis
Women, Sport, Society
