...Glen Thompson Studies on swimming and surfing history are reviewed. They open up new perspectives on the relationship between politics, culture, and gender. These water sports can be seen historically as political and determined by local, national, and global conditions. Each study historicizes...

... and Daniel Widener of recent histories of water sports and European football. This journal issue appears on the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which are estimated to cost at least $16 billion in public funds. The country’s hosting of the 2014 World Cup sparked criticism...

... African surfer minds sharing his waves and good surf with anyone, regardless of color, them all being equal in the love of their sport,” but such an inclusive sentiment was relatively easy to express to an international audience when the number of nonwhites in the water was negligible.38 Had black...

... Kuhn's Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, and Sid Lowe's Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World's Greatest Sports Rivalry . Goldblatt David , The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain . ( New York...

...Robert A. Gilmer The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drew international attention to the complex relationship between oil, water, and people along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Before the spill began, over two thousand square miles of Louisiana's wetlands had already disappeared, leaving...

...Steven W. Thrasher In the United States, sports have provided a historic framework for perpetuating the social construction of black men as a threatening menace to public safety. At the same time, sports have also provided a framework for understanding how to control black men's bodies...

..., their recent conferences have promised panels on such topics as ”Trans- portationMoving Cultures,” ”River and Water Cultures,” ”Personal Space and Mass Culture,” “Jungian Culture,” “Women’s Hand Things and Culture” as well as an eclectic mix of regional variants: “Ozark Culture, ” ”Tennessee Culture...

... for failing to provide a referee for another match later in the season. In building their case, Heubach officials drew a clear line between grassroots activism and unfeeling authority. They highlighted the work of club members to renovate the sports hall, fix the water supply, and clear snow from...

... and air pollution and water pollution into an area that was pristine. There’s nothing about the public outrage in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, when people tore up their credit cards. As history, I don’t think it’s in any way adequate.” THE ABUSABLE...

... memorializing the Holocaust. According to a brief item in the New York Times, the team had planned to don black bathing suits, goose-step to the side of the pool, and then, once in the water, ”to re-enact the arrival of Jewish women in the death camps, their selection by Nazi doctors and their final...

... fight RECONSTRUCTING REPRESENTATION/ 15 Figure 4: ”The dog pit at Kit Burns’ during a fight.” Wood engraving, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (8 December 1866), 181. American Social History Project. in Kit Burns’s ”Sportsmen’s Hall” on Water Street...

..., of pure melodrama: NATURE LOVERS/203 ”There she came! There was a cheer from all hands, and the spectators went flying to avoid the oily spray blown by the wind. They let her shoot for a while, until the water had been ejected; higher and higher...

.... Pugilists violated legal prohibitions on prizefighting and created a context that energized the Mexican public sphere as a site of visceral debate about the propriety of prizefighting versus the Hispanic legacy of other blood sports and public spectacles such as cockfighting and bullfighting. Central here...

... of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimen- talism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation” (the phrase is Marx’s), the revolutionary bourgeoisie left their descendents adrift and homeless in a radically desanctified universe.1 Most of them clung desperately...

... the bitter end. Solidarity activists rarely supported one of these liberation struggles without awareness of the others, for they were indeed linked, as were the white regimes themselves. Finally, we tried to acknowledge the sheer diversity of the meaning of solidarity, which might focus on sports...

...,Neb., 19761, 3-58. 10. William Elliott, Carolina Sports By Land and Water Including Incidents of Deuil- Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer, and Bear Hunting, Etc. (NewYork, 1859),254-255.For statistics on improved and unimproved acreage see Donald B. Dodd and Wynelle S. Dodd, Historical Statistics...

...” in classical literature, as Ronald Newbold puts it.20 Within this imagining, the rivers teemed with sporting nymphs or naiads, the seas with oceanids; “populating waters with anthropomorphic deities helps endow with personality something that can rage with crashing waves, play and laugh, or lie calm...

... and the treatment of seed grain.19 At the same time, Swedish scientists and officials began to worry about the impact mercury might have on Swedish water systems; according to one account, “not much imagination was needed to realize the potential hazard to human health of the mercury in fish.”20 By 1964...

... generally forward in time, through halls offering topical expositions "The Strenuous Ideal," for example, exhibits sports paraphernalia-exercise machines and bathing suits. "The Modems" presents changes in gender attitudes during the 192Os, with curling irons, women's smoking equipment...

... the sounds to passersby.6 As the cost of radios was still beyond the reach of the average New Yorker, the shops became a meeting place for residents who gathered outside to listen to sports broadcasts, music programs, and the news, and large crowds routinely assembled to hear political speeches...