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Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand (Paperback)
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Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
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Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New
Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously,
been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a
distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from
wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of
some sporting codes - and some individuals - while others have
blossomed in the changed circumstances. The chapters in this book
range widely over the broad subject of Australian and New Zealand
sport and their relation to the cataclysmic world wars of the first
half of the twentieth century. They examine the mythology of the
links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting
individuals, and individual sportspeople. Revealing complex and
often unpredictable effects of total wars upon individuals and
social groups which as always, created chaos, and the sporting
field offered no exception. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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