Author: Sydney P. ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sport
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sporting Records of New Zealand
Author: Sydney P. ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sport
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sport and the New Zealanders
Author: Greg RyanPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1776710061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
A history of New Zealanders and the sports that we have made our own, from the Maori world to today's professional athletes.&‘. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians' claims to the contrary', wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. &‘For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious session between 5pm and closing time an hour later, the friend of a relative of a horse trainer is a veritable patriarch. No matador in Madrid, no tenor in Turin could be sure of such flattering attention.' As Brittenden suggested, sport has played a central part in the social and cultural history of Aotearoa New Zealand throughout its history. This book tells the story of sport in New Zealand for the first time, from the Maori world to today's professional athletes. Through rugby and netball, bodybuilding and surf lifesaving, the book introduces readers to the history of the codes, the organisations and the players. It takes us into the stands and on to the sidelines to examine the meaning of sport to its participants, its followers, and to the communities to which they belonged. Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Maori played in our sporting life? Do we really &‘punch above our weight' in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life.
Guinness Sports Record Book 1987-1988
Author: David A. BoehmPublisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806964546
Category : Sports records
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An updated alphabetical list of records held in various sports from aerobatics to yachting.
All-sports Record Book
Author: Frank Grant MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Guinness Sports Record Book
Author: Guinness Sports Record Book, 1978-9
Author: Norris McWhirterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553122343
Category : Sports records
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Making of New Zealanders
Author: Ron PalenskiPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775581942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to mention the emergence of rugby teams, this book accounts for how transplanted Britons, and others, turned themselves into New Zealanders—a distinct group of people with their own songs and sports, symbols and opinions, political traditions, and sense of self. Tracing markers in popular culture, political processes, and public events, this informative and thrilling history focuses on the forging of a distinctive new culture and society.
Guinness Sports Record Book
Author: Norris Dewar McWhirterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553101003
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The All-sports Record Book
Author: Frank Grant MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Author: