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1. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

   Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Since the mid-nineteenth century the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

   To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Triple Asian Olympics

   Asia Rising - the Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time...

   To Be Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

   Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

   Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

   To Be Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Olympic Aspirations

   Realised and Unrealised

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sport, Militarism and the Great War

   Martial Manliness and Armageddon

   Edited by Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Imperial Curriculum

   Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience

   Edited by J. Mangan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. Making Imperial Mentalities

   Socialisation and British Imperialism

   Edited by J. Mangan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm. The study compares the perceptions of people at ‘home’, in the dominions and in the colonies. Across the diversity of imperial territories it explores themes such as the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Benefits Bestowed?

   Education and British Imperialism

   Edited by J. Mangan

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: The myths and visions of imperialism; The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; The...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
10. Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

    Edited by J. A. Mangan, Fan Hong

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising...

    Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge