European Heroes Myth, Identity, Sport - Sport in the Global Society

Richard Holt, Pierre Lanfranchi, J. A. Mangan

Hardback (31 May 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780714645780
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	31 May 1996
DEWEY:	796.0922
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	184
Weight:	405g
Height:	229mm
Width:	159mm
Spine width:	19mm