ISBN:
9780714648255
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (222 p)
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society
Parallel Title:
Print version The Nordic World: Sport in Society
DDC:
306.4/83/0948
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture. It explores the political, social and aesthetic impact of modern sport on the Northern European Nordic communities. Its concern is the relationship between Nordic culture, Nordic nations, changing Nordic attitudes to time, space and the body and the related evolution of specific Nordic visions and traditions of sport as an integral component of cultural similarity and synthesis
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Foreword; Prologue: Nordic History, Society and Sport; A Timeless Excitement: Swedish Agrarian Society and Sport in the Pre-Industrial Era; Politics and Gymnastics in a Frontier Area post-1848; The Power of Public Pronouncement: The Rhetoric of Nordic Sport in the Early Twentieth Century; From Balck to Nurmi: The Olympic Movement and the Nordic Nations; The Popular Sounding Board: Nationalism,` the People' and Sport in Norway in the Inter-war Years
Description / Table of Contents:
A Mutual Dependency: Nordic Sports Organizations and the StateGender in Modern Society: Femininity, Gymnastics and Sport; Maintaining a Military Capability: The Finnish Home Guard, European Fashion and Sport for War; Sport in Society: The Nordic World and Other Worlds; Epilogue: Nordic World and Global Village; Selected Bibliography; Notes about the Contributors; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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