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Author : Historical Society of Alberta
Publisher : Calgary : Historical Society of Alberta
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015024791173
Author : Historical Society of Alberta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Leisure
ISBN : LCCN:29123018
Author : Heather L. Dichter,Sarah Teetzel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781003831297
2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in light of the sustained and significant problems facing the Olympic movement. Host cities’ efforts to create positive and lasting legacies are analyzed to highlight the challenges and complexities that have plagued the Olympic movement throughout the last century. The Olympic Winter Games at 100 is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or scholar with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy and history. The chapters in this book were published as two special issues in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030615603
Author : Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Skis and skiing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041784039
Author : Darryl Humber,William Humber
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1770705910
Winter has shaped Canada’s image and has been embraced with hearty enthusiasm from snowshoeing hikers in the nineteenth century, to future hockey stars on backyard rinks, to the indoor spectacle of figure-skating carnivals and curling bonspiels. Much of our literature, our songs, and our memories of youth reflect the bracing tonic that winter brings even as we curse the ice-laden roads on morning commutes or during weekend ski trips. But alas, winter’s demise to a weak reminder of its former glory is a real possibility as climate change wreaks long-term havoc. This timely book takes a fond look at winter’s past, its place in Canada’s story, and how it has shaped our sports history. It also explores what climate change means for our sense of Canadian identity, for our winter sports heritage and its related industries, and for our ability to hold winter sporting events beyond the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556025361569
Author : Janice Forsyth,Audrey R. Giles
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774824224
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport as a lens through which to examine issues such as individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency. In this groundbreaking volume, leading scholars offer a multidisciplinary perspective on how unequal power relations influence the ability of Aboriginal people in Canada to implement their own visions for sport. The diverse analyses illuminate how Aboriginal people employ sport as a venue through which to assert their cultural identities and find a positive space for themselves and upcoming generations in contemporary Canadian society.
Author : Edgar Syers,Syers (Mrs. Madge.),Madge Syers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Winter sports
ISBN : PRNC:32101068975109
Author : J. C. Dier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Winter sports
ISBN : UOM:39015000623242
Author : William Joseph Baker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0252060423
Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacle of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities like class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. Looking at films from almost every sporting genre--with a particular focus on movies about boxing, baseball, basketball, and football--Contesting Identities maps the complex cultural landscape depicted in American sports films and the ways in which stories about "subaltern" groups winning acceptance by the mainstream majority can serve to reinforce the values of that majority. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556025359860
Author : Lu Zhouxiang,Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351181471
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Olympics played an important role in the politics of the Cold War and was part of the conflicts between the Capitalist Block, the Socialist Block and Third World countries. The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) is one of the best examples of the politicization of sport and the Olympics in the Cold War era. From the 1980s onward, the Olympics has facilitated communication and cooperation between nations in the post–Cold War era and contributed to the formation of a new world order. In August 2016, the Games of the XXXI Olympiad were held in Rio de Janeiro, making Brazil the first South American country to host the Summer Olympics. This was widely regarded as a new landmark event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. From the GANEFO to Rio, the Olympic Games have witnessed the shifting balance in international politics and world economy. This book aims at understanding the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and tries to explain how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations against the background of the rise of developing countries. The chapters in this book were published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476615271
The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering—but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented. The Encyclopedia of International Games captures (in one alphabetical sequence) the histories of these games, many of them for the first time. The work includes major regional events such as the African, Asian, Arab, South Pacific, and Pan American Games; competitions such as the Indian Ocean Island Games, Arctic Winter Games, Island Games, and Games of the Small Countries of Europe; specific populations or professions such as the North American Indigenous Games, Maccabiah Games, World Military Games, World Police and Fire Games, and World Medical and Health Games; and Special Olympics, the Paralympics, games for the blind, and other regional games. Eight appendices, notes, bibliography, index.
Author : Diana Pederson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773574007
Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.