The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport
Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through
I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution in the first half
of the twentieth century with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene. At the same time, Danish sport stood apart from Europe, in part due to Denmarks rural revolution and as a statement of national independence and assertion. During Nazi Germanys occupation of Denmark in the war years, Danish sport became more fully a part of a European collaboration, a common pattern in occupied countries, especially in the Nordic nations. After the Second World War, Denmark joined other European nations and embraced international body cultures, in particular Eastern martial arts. In the contemporary period Denmark has increasingly used sport as a powerful political statement, as has much of the rest of Europe and the world.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Hisotry of Sport.
Hans Bonde is a professor, Ph.D. and D.Phil in history, at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is Leader of the Danish Research Education Program in Sport Sciences (http://reps.ku.dk/). In 2007 the Danish version of his book Football with the Foe was awarded the prize as The Danish History Book of the Year.
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Contents
On 1st January, 2010 Sport in the Global Society, created by Professor J.A. Mangan in 1997, was divided into two parts: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Perspectives.
These categories will involve predominant rather than exclusive emphases. The past is part of the present and the present is part of the past. The Editors of Historical Perspectives are J.A.Mangan, Mark Dyreson and Thierry Terret.
The reasons for the division are straightforward. SGS has expanded rapidly since its creation with over one hundred publications in some twelve years. Its editorial teams will now benefit from sectional specialist interests and expertise.
Historical Perspectives draws on IJHS monograph reviews, themed collections and conference/workshop collections. It is, of course, international in content.
J.A.Mangan
Mark Dyreson
Thierry Terret
Sport in the Global Society
Series Editors: J.A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson and Thierry Terret
The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport
The Danish Involvement
Sport in the Global Society: Historical Perspectives
Series Editors: J.A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson and Thierry Terret
Titles in the Series
Gymnastics, a Transatlantic Movement
From Europe to America
Edited by Gertrud Pfister
Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism
Blooding The Martial Male
J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie
Post-Beijing 2008
Geopolitics, Sport, Pacific Rim
Edited by J.A. Mangan and Fan Hong
Representing the Nation
Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Claire and Keith Brewster
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
New Perspectives
Edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou
Sport in the Pacific
Colonial and Postcolonial Consequencies
Edited by C. Richard King
Sport Past and Present in South Africa
(Trans)forming the Nation
Edited by Scarlet Cornelissen and Albert Grundlingh
The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929-1939
Politicians in Pursuit of Peace
Penelope Kissoudi
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 Visual in Sport
Edited by Mike Huggins and Mike OMahony
Past SGS publications prior to 2010
Africa, Football and FIFA
Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
Paul Darby
Amateurism in British Sport
It Matters Not Who Won or Lost
Edited by Dilwyn Porter and Stephen Wagg
Amateurism in Sport
An Analysis and Defence
Lincoln Allison
Americas Game(s)
A Critical Anthropology of Sport
Edited by Benjamin Eastman, Sean Brown and Michael Ralph
American Sports
An Evolutionary Approach
Edited by Alan Klein
A Social History of Indian Football
Striving to Score
Kausik Bandyopadhya and Boria Majumdar
A Social History of Swimming in England, 18001918
Splashing in the Serpentine
Christopher Love
A Sport-Loving Society
Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play
Edited by J.A. Mangan
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School
The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology, New Edition
J.A. Mangan
Australian Beach Cultures
The History of Sun, Sand and Surf
Douglas Booth
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players
A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football, Second Edition
Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory
Chinese Challenge in the Chinese Century
Edited by J.A. Mangan and Dong Jinxia
Body and Mind
Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance
John McClelland
British Football and Social Exclusion
Edited by Stephen Wagg
Capoeira
The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Matthias Rhrig Assuno
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance
America at the Olympics
Mark Dyreson
Cricket and England
A Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars
Jack Williams
Cricket in Colonial India, 17801947
Boria Majumdar
Cricketing Cultures in Conflict
Cricketing World Cup 2003
Edited by Boria Majumdar and J.A. Mangan