Rugby and the South African nation : sport, cultures, politics and power in the old and new South Africas

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Rugby and the South African nation : sport, cultures, politics and power in the old and new South Africas

David R. Black and John Nauright

(International studies in the history of sport)

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

In the INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SPORT series, this book explores the complex and controversial role of rugby union in the politics and cultures of South Africa, from its emergence as a settler dominion in the the early twentieth century through to the post apartheid era.

Table of Contents

  • Sport, culture and politics
  • making imperial men
  • black rugby, sporting ideologies and racial politics
  • rugby, the Broederbond and the National Party during apartheid
  • Springbok - all black rugby, sanctions and politics, 1959-1992
  • rugby, race and the politics of transition
  • the world and South Africa in union? - the significance of the 1995 Rugby World Cup
  • rugby and the new South Africa.

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