Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the liv

Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate t

Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sportin

The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psycholog

This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.