Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

Taylor & Francis

Sport, War and Society in Australia and New ZealandAuthor(s): Martin Crotty, Robert Hess\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367023652, 978-0367023652\nSynopsis\nSport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes and some individuals while others have blossomed in the changed circumstances.\n\nThe chapters in this book range widely over the broad subject of Australian and New Zealand sport and their relation to the cataclysmic world wars of the first half of the twentieth century. They examine the mythology of the links between sport and war, sporting codes, groups of sporting individuals, and individual sportspeople. Reveali.