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Sport and the New Zealanders : a history / Greg Ryan and Geoff Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Greg, 1967- author.
- Watson, Geoff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--New Zealand.
- Sports.
- Rugby Union football--New Zealand--History.
- Rugby Union football.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 390 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Sport in New Zealand
- Chapter Two: Laying the Base:
- Chapter Three: Building the Pyramid:
- Chapter Four: Broadening Horizons:
- Chapter Five: Towards National Games:
- Chapter Six: A New Normal:
- Chapter Seven: Becoming Inclusive?
- Chapter Eight: Golden Weather and
- Chapter Nine: Playing Under Protest:
- Chapter Ten: For Money not Love?
- Chapter Eleven: And Sport for All?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-77671-005-3
- OCLC:
- 1084410005
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