Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a specialist in early twentieth-century French culture, history and politics and is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War (2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936-45 (2011). His most recent book, co-written with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw, is French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures (2017). His current work explores the history of the French sports press and publication industry through its relationship to road cycling.

This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.

Introduction: 'Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus' Part 1: Military and Sporting Cultures 1. Boars as Rebels: Pig-Sticking as a Military Sport for the British Army in India 2. Reporting the Death of Cycling's Elite in First World War France 3. Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup 4. Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision and the Logic of War in Esports Part 2: Play On: Negotiating Sporting Practice in a Time of Conflict 5. 'You are absolutely indifferent to the call of your King': Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand, 1914-18 6. 'Flannelled fools are strutting about tennis courts': Lawn Tennis in Britain during the Great War 7. Occupied Scandinavian Brother Nations: Danish and Norwegian Sports during World War II 8. The General's Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship during Columbia's La Violencia, 1953-58 Part 3: Sports Culture and the Legacy of War 9. 'What Demobilised Men Want': Physical Culture and Post-War British Masculinity 10. The 'Great Game' and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish-British Relations in the Olympic Movement 11. The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War 12. Remembering 'Our Boys': Football, War, and Masculinity in the British Military Spectacular Part 4: Playing for Peace: Cultural Diplomacy or Pacification? 13. Overcoming Antipathy for Internationalism? Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games 14. War and Sport in 'French' Algeria: From Pacification to Decolonization 15. 'A Fine Example of Brotherhood and Sportsmanship': The 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the Era of the 'Little Détente' 16. Replacing Bullets with Balls: Sport for Peace in the FARC Demobilization and Reincorporation Camps