ABSTRACT
The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at various times and in various places imperial unity, national identity, social reform, recreational development and post-imperial goodwill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Prologue: Britain's Chief Spiritual Export
Imperial Sport as Moral Metaphor, Political Symbol and Cultural Bond
chapter 4|24 pages
Emancipation, Exercise and Imperialism
Girls and the Games Ethic in Colonial Malaya
chapter 8|24 pages
Viceregal Patronage
The Governors-General of Canada and Sport in the Dominion, 1867–1909
chapter 10|10 pages
‘The Warmth of Comradeship'
The First British Empire Games and Imperial Solidarity
chapter |9 pages
Teaching the Nations How to Play
Sport and Society in the British Empire and Commonwealth
