Böcker av J. A. Mangan

This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.

This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved.

The relationship between sport and the development of male identity from the 19th to the 20th century is discussed in this collection of studies on the making of modern masculinity.

Dr Mangan's readable and engrossing study of athleticism is a work of substantial and fluent scholarship. It is an original and stimulating contribution to the history of public schools, educational ideologies and secondary education which will interest the general reader as well as the social scientist, historian and educationalist.

Hunting was seen as a manifestation of Darwinian masculinity that maintained a pre-ordained hierarchical order of superordinate and subordinate breeds. This book examines these ideas under such sections as martial imperialism; the self-sacrificial subaltern; and, 'blooding' the middle class martial male.

Unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They brought the game to individual schools and they established regional and national leagues and associations. This story intends to allow a fundamental reappraisal of the status and position of these teachers in 20th century society.

This book describes the imperial spread of public school games through a consideration of hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation.

This collection considers women's football in a global context and analyses its progress, and the challenges and problems it has faced.