HIST 3838 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sovetsky Sport, Native American Identity In The United States, Sport Canada
15 Apr 2016
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1800- 1850 sport helps define the modern in europe. 1850-1890 sport is exported to the colonial world and used to distinguish class and race in. Football in africa goes back to the 1860s with matches between british home-born and colonial-born. French, belgians, portuguese helped spread it across the country. Colonial educators, missionaries, and administrators used football to make disciplined, healthy, and moral citizens. In colonial africa, football was shaped by racial boundaries. The use of magic and religious specialists infused the game with distinctive african traits. Despite efforts by colonists to use football to segregate groups and create obedient, efficient and healthy african working class, the cosmopolitan character of urban africa led to mixing of groups and the creation of pan-ethnic teams . Britain brought cricket to west indies, yet they ended up defeating them later in history. Use sport as a way of pushing back platform to express their disgruntlement.
