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Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
This book presents a captivating story about traditional sports and games in the current world. It moves from Denmark to the Basque Country and to Scotland, exploring traditional games in their local contexts. It highlights the numerous, practical functions of traditional games, showing that these games are very valuable, necessary, and actually fit the needs of our times! It offers an original perspective on traditional sports and games, providing captivating stories from personal trips to these countries and numerous practical descriptions and inspirational ideas about how to use traditional games in practice.
The Olympic Winter Games at 100
2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in lig...
When Fitness Went Global
Fitness, exercise and physical culture is a key part of our modern lives, but has this always been the case? In this book, Conor Heffernan shows how the 19th century was critical for the development of the modern fitness industry, and how the globalization of physical culture was entangled in, and spread by, concepts of nationalism, gender, race, empire and medicine. From yoga and gymnastics to Indian club swinging and Jiujitsu, When Fitness Went Global follows some of the most popular fitness practices from around the world as they were exported on a global scale during the long 19th century. Showing how this came about through imperial networks, military education, new print culture, faster trade networks and changing ideas about the body, it shows how beautiful bodies were linked to notions of national strength and imperial might. Exploring how both local and international understandings of exercise were negotiated, it asks why some practices became global while others did not, and shows how fitness was revolutionised during the 19th century.
Baskové v ofsajdu
Kniha se věnuje kopané jiným způsobem, než je u většiny publikací obvyklé. Snaží se ukázat, že fotbal, nejpopulárnější hra nejenom na Pyrenejském poloostrově, může hrát velmi významnou roli v souvislosti s politikou, což prezentuje na příkladu baskického nacionalismu. Ve stejnou dobu, kdy si v oblasti u Biskajského zálivu získávala popularitu kopaná, se začalo dostávat větší pozornosti také úvahám o existenci národa Basků. Na přelomu 19. a 20. století tyto dva fenomény moderní doby - nacionalismus a fotbal - zapustily v Baskicku pevné kořeny. Baskové v ofsajdu se snaží zmapovat způsoby, jakými baskičtí nacionalisté využívali či stále využívají kopanou a tamní fotbalový reprezentační výběr v kontextu svých politických cílů, které se v průběhu času proměňovaly.
