What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What
can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity?
Bringing together the work of established historians and younger
commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century,
giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and
political history. It Includes studies of: * English football and
British decline * Englishness and sport * Ethnicity and nationalism
in Scotland * Social change and national pride in Wales * Irish
international football and Irishness * Sport and identity in South
Africa * Cricket and identity crisis in the Caribbean * Baseball,
exceptionalism and American Sport * Popular mythology surrounding
the sporting rivalry between New Zealand and Australia Sport and
National Identity in the Post-War World presents a wealth of
original research into contemporary social history and provides
illuminating material for historians and sociologists alike.
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