Prologue : transcending national boundaries / Boria Majumdar -- A man for the future / Boria Majumdar and Projit B. Mukharji -- Beijing ambitions : an analysis of the Chinese elite sports system and its Olympic strategy for the 2008 Olympic Games / Fan Hong, Ping Wu, and Huan Xiong -- Women, nationalism, and the Beijing Olympics : preparing for glory / Dong Jinxia -- "Sadly neglected" : hunting and gendered identities : a study in gender construction / Callum Mckenzie -- Amateur world champion, 1893 : the international cycling career of American Arthur Augustus Zimmerman, 1888-1896 / Andrew Ritchie -- An imperial legacy : British by inclination : socialization, education, and a Gibraltarian sense of identity / E.G. Archer -- Discipline, character, health : ideals and icons of Nordic masculinity, 1860-1930 / Henrik Meinander -- Closing the circle : sponsorship and the Greek Olympic games from ancient times to the present day / Penelope Kissoudi -- Maharajas and cricket : self, state, province, and nation / Boria Majumdar -- The political significance of sport : an Asian case study : sport, Japanese colonial policy, and Korean national resistance, 1910-1945 / Gwang Ok -- Sport as a political tool : Tanzania and the liberation of Africa / Hamad S. Ndee -- Celluloid soccer : the peculiarities of soccer in Bengali cinema / Sharmistha Gooptu -- Sedentary games and the nationalist project : a silent history / Nirbed Ray and Projit Bihari Mukharji -- Sports history in India : prospects and problems / Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- "For all that was good, noble, and true" : a middle class martial icon of Canadian patriotism and British imperialism : John Lovell Dashwood, Canada, and the Great War / Colm Hickey -- "Christ and the imperial games fields" in south-central Africa : sport and the Scottish missionaries in Malawi, 1880-1914 : utilitarian compromise / Markku Hokkanen -- Epilogue : a fine example has boundless power / Fan Hong.
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