Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim
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Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

About this book

Soft Power Politics- Past and Present: Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim illustrates the momentous expanse and moment of sport in the Asia Pacific region and through these essays dealing with two of the most prodigious global team sports confronts various cultural clashes that Samuel Huntington would ensure the end of civilisation. They also demonstrate the power sport has to change the world and to inspire and unite people globally. All who sail under the flag ofSport as ingenuous as it may seem to the host of cynics that abounds, believe that dialogues that emerge from arguments included in this text represent communication of the highest order and have the potential to produce the cohesion that can close some of those cracks that Huntington said would open up along, what he called the fault lines between civilisations.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Yes, you can access Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim by Rob Hess,Peter Horton,J.A. Mangan in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780415711791
eBook ISBN
9781351548311
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Series Editors’ Foreword
  7. Series Pages
  8. Citation Information
  9. 1. Preface: Soft Power Politics, Hegemonic Realities and Eastern Promise: Changing Circumstances – ‘Look East Young Man and Woman’!
  10. 2. Forging Imperial and Australasian Identities: Australian Rules Football in New Zealand During the Nineteenth Century
  11. 3. Women’s Football in the People’s Republic of China: Retrospect and Prospect
  12. 4. Pacific Islanders in Global Rugby: The Changing Currents of Sports Migration
  13. 5. Reflections on Race, Regionalism and Geopolitical Trends via Australian Soccer
  14. 6. The Significance of Koshien Baseball in Postwar Okinawa: A Representation of ‘Okinawa’
  15. 7. Seeking a Separate National Identity: The Taiwanese State, Politics and the 2007 Baseball World Cup
  16. 8. Globalisation, Individualism and Scandal: New Directions in Japanese Baseball
  17. 9. An Indispensable but Fragile Geopolitical Triangle: Baseball in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
  18. 10. Epilogue: Sport on the Western Pacific Rim: The Present and the Future
  19. Index