Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies and Director of Research in the Centre for Sport Research, Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK. He has authored and edited numerous works on mainly sociological, but also historical, aspects of sport, leisure and consumption. Christopher Young is Reader in Modern and Medieval German Studies in the Department of German and Dutch, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He has authored and co-edited eight books on German language, literature and culture, and a further five volumes and journal special issues on international sport. Richard Holt is Professor of History in, and Director of, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and as a Lecturer in History at Stirling University. He has written general histories of both British and French sports.

Introduction: Sport in Europe 1950-2010 – Transformation and Trends 1. Soviet Physical Culture and Sport: A European Legacy? 2. East Beats West: Ice Hockey and the Cold War 3. Communism, Youth and Sport: The 1973 World Youth Festival in East Berlin 4. Resurrecting the Nation: The Evolution of French Sports Policy from De Gaulle to Mitterand 5. Bikila’s Aria: The 1960 Rome Olympics 6. Sport on Soviet Television 7. Jeux avec Frontières: Television Markets and European Sport 8. Football and Media in Europe: A New Sport Paradigm for the Global Era 9. Hosting the Olympic Games: From Promoting the Nation to Nation Branding 10. Regulatory Regimes in European Sport 11. The Europeanization of Football: Germany and Austria Compared 12. Why are the European and American Sports Worlds so Different? Path-dependence in European and American Sports History. Afterword