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A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing
together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to
examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An
essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics,
students and researchers.
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing
together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to
examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An
essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics,
students and researchers.
The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and
the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning
points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often
slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of
these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which
they came about.
In a broad sweep from Central Europe to Ireland and from the
Sixteenth to the early Nineteenth-century, this work puts the
Jewish community and its rabbinic and 'lay' leaders at the centre
of Jewish history. Of surpassing value is Kochan's treatment of the
community not only as a religious but also as a political unit. It
shows the community at grips with the Reformation and the
introduction of the ghetto system in the Italian states. Thence to
the great maritime centre of Venice, Amsterdam, Hamburg and London,
under the dominance of the Sephardi exiles from Spain and Portugal;
and also to the metropolitan centres of Prague, Vienna and Berlin
and the liaison of their court-Jews with the Hapsburgs, Bourbons
and Hohenzollerns. This was not achieved without severe tension
inside the communities and, whilst eschewing the concept of
class-struggle, Kochan's analysis of the clash of interests between
the few wealthy and the multitude of poor Jews raises doubts about
the whole notion of 'community'.
This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in
relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in
Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that
the Sixties - fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left
behind. In their leisure lives - whether drinking, reading, surfing
the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a
holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a
bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside - people seem to
enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are
they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been
relinquished?
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects
with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of
cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities
remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and
meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and
consumption of popular music.
The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and
the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning
points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often
slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of
these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which
they came about.
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