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European Heroes

Myth, Identity, Sport

By: J A Mangan (Editor), Richard Holt (Editor), Pierre Lanfranchi (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 March 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.

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Non-Fiction Sports & Recreation History Regional & National History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Biographies & True Stories Biographies Sport Biographies

Prologue: heroes of a European past
Charismatic national leader
"muscular, militaristic and manly" - the British middle-class hero as moral messenger
Cricket and Englishness - the batsman as hero
"our Stephen and our Harold" - Edwardian footballers as local heroes
National identity and the sporting champion - Jean Borotra and French history
Symbol of national resurrection - Max Schmeling, German sports idol
The immigrant as hero - Kopa, Mekloufi and French football
Italian cycling and the creation of a Catholic hero - the Bartali myth
A culture of urban cosmopolitanism - Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee-house heroes
Courage against cupidity - Carpentier and Dempsey - symbols of cultural confrontation
Epilogue heroes for a European future
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