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Browsing 11 Medical and Health Sciences by Author "Adair Daryl"

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  • Australian sport history: From the founding years to today 
    Adair Daryl (Routledge/British Society of Sports History, 2009)
    The academic study of sport history in Australia is a relatively recent initiative, dating back to the 1970s. It was inspired by a handful of enterprising scholars, each of whom is now retired. The following paper has two ...
  • Darkness and a little light: 'Race' and sport in Australia 
    Tatz Colin; Adair Daryl (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Islander Studies, 2009)
    Despite 'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and emotions, of brave deeds against odds seemingly insuperable', sport is mixed with 'mean and shameful acts of pure skullduggery', villainy, ...
  • Natural-Born Athletes? Australian Aboriginal People and the Double-Edged Lure of Professional Sport 
    Adair Daryl; Stronach Megan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
    In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy, the role of sport in society, and the globalization/localization of sports policies. In particular, it maps out local, ...
  • Prestige, privilege and polite society: The origins of fencing in New South Wales, 1800 to 1939 
    Emmerick Richard; Adair Daryl (Australian Society for Sports History, 2010)
    Fencing has been an Olympic sport since 1896, but even with that status it has attracted little interest from historians. Internationally the major study of fencing is Cohen�s By the Sword (2002), which is not a history ...
  • Sport Development 
    Schulenkorf Nico; Adair Daryl (Cengage Learning, 2012)
    Fundamentally, sport development is about providing opportunities for individuals and communities to engage in grassroots physical activities in terms of what can be described as 'the common good'. When appropriately ...