New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

<p><em>New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe</em> offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history. </p><p>This anthology adds to the growing corpus of explorations of sport and leisure in late-modern European history from a variety of countries: France, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. With topics covering several different sports and ranging from sport during empire to mega-events, and sport literature to women’s sport attire, the insights provided by this new body of research demonstrate a greater understanding of the connections between sport and society in Europe throughout the long twentieth century. </p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>The International Journal of the History of Sport</i>.</p> <p>1. New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’</p><p>Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake and Mark Dyreson</p><p>2. Football and Politics in Twentieth-Century Hungary</p><p>Róbert Győri Szabó</p><p>3. Polo: Social Distinction and Sports in Spain, 1900–1950</p><p>José Miguel Hernández Barral</p><p>4. Keen on Massage: The Finnish Way to Olympic Success in the Twentieth Century</p><p>Kalle Rantala</p><p>5. ‘Heroes! Bring Happiness to Your Motherland! Long Live the Yunaks’: The Bulgarian Yunak Gymnastics Movement in the late Ottoman Period</p><p>Sabri Özçakır</p><p>6. Reexamining Violence and Trauma in the French Boxing Literature of the Interwar Period: Henri Decoin Quinze Rounds (1930) and Alfred Menguy Gueules Aplaties (1933)</p><p>Maxence Pascal Philippe Leconte</p><p>7. From ‘Wild’ Skaters to Hockey Players: The Beginnings of Ice Hockey in Slovenia</p><p>Tomaž Pavlin</p><p>8. The Influence of the 1992 Earth Summit on the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona: Awakening of the Olympic Environmental Dimension</p><p>Alberto Aragón-Pérez</p><p>9. Propaganda on Two Wheels: The Spanish Republican Team in the 1937 Tour de France</p><p>Bernat López</p><p>10. ‘Save the Long Skirt’: Women, Sports, and Fashion in Third Republic and Vichy France</p><p>Keith Rathbone</p>