Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buchreihe	:	Britain and the World
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	12. 06. 2014
Seiten	:	257
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	216 mm
Breite	:	140 mm
Gewicht	:	470 g
ISBN	:	9781137398505
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Erik Nielsen is a historian of the British Empire with a focus on sport and is based at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published articles and chapters on track and field athletics, rugby league and Australia's sporting relationship with India. His teaching interests include military history, Australian colonial history and Australia's Asian Context.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Introduction 2. The Commercialisation of Australasian Amateur Athletics 3. The Role of Race and Class in Defining the Australasian Amateur Community 4. 'Imperialism and Nationalism in Action'? Reconfiguring the Athletic Relationship with Britain 5. North American Cousins: Relations with the United States and Canada 6. A Question of Nationalism? The Dissolution of the Australasian Amateur Athletic Relationship Conclusion

Pressestimmen

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“Nielsen’s assiduous work in the archives reveals that Coombes was instrumental in establishing a network of contacts who were empire loyalists rather than colonial nationalists. … it generates new perspectives that cultural historians will find useful.” (Dilwyn Porter, The Journal of the Historical Association, October, 2016)

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