TY - BOOK ID - 16244875 TI - Australian Rules Football During the First World War AU - Blair, Dale. AU - Hess, Rob. PY - 2017 SN - 331957843X 3319578421 9783319578439 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Australian football KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Group identity KW - Sports for women KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Women KW - Women's sports KW - Physical education for women KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - European War, 1914-1918 KW - First World War, 1914-1918 KW - Great War, 1914-1918 KW - World War 1, 1914-1918 KW - World War I, 1914-1918 KW - World War One, 1914-1918 KW - WW I (World War, 1914-1918) KW - WWI (World War, 1914-1918) KW - History, Modern KW - Aussie football KW - Aussie rules (Australian football) KW - Aussie rules football KW - Australian rules football KW - Football KW - Sports KW - Islands of the Pacific-History. KW - History, Modern. KW - Military history. KW - Social history. KW - World politics. KW - Australasian History. KW - Modern History. KW - History of Military. KW - Social History. KW - Political History. KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - Military historiography KW - Military history KW - Wars KW - Historiography KW - Naval history KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - Islands of the Pacific—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16244875 AB - The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code. The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it seeks to shine a light on and provide considerable detail to a much-ignored period in Australian Rules football history, including women’s football history, that was subject to much upheaval and which reflected considerable social and class divisions in society at the time. One hundred years on, the Australian Football League presents past soldier footballers as unequivocal representatives of a unifying national ‘Anzac’ spirit. That is far from the reality of football’s First World War experience. ER -