The ‘British World’, other worlds, and the five rings : possibilities for trans-imperial histories and historical ‘what ifs’
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Die "britische Welt", andere Welten und die fünf Ringe : Möglichkeiten für trans-imperiale Geschichten und historische "Was-wäre-wenns" |
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Autor: | Dyreson, Mark |
Erschienen in: | Sport in society |
Veröffentlicht: | 18 (2015), 7 (The British World and the Five Rings: Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement), S. 868-875, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1743-0437, 1743-0445, 1461-0981 |
DOI: | 10.1080/17430437.2014.990690 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201901000392 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
In the early 1890s an ardent British imperialist proposed a ‘Pan-Britannic Olympics’ that included not only the British Empire but the USA in a plan to use sport to unite the English-speaking peoples of the globe into a world-ruling coalition. While that proposal was eventually bested by the Baron Pierre de Coubertin's movement that created an even more inclusive modern Olympics, the sentiments of the ‘Pan-Britannic’ scheme became in embroiled in debates over the national and imperial uses of international sport. Pondering the role of Coubertin's Olympics in forging a variety of imperial and national identities within the British Empire while also employing speculative alternative histories reveals the complex transnational and trans-imperial dimensions of the Olympics in modern global history.