Keith Rathbone
Biographic Data
| ID | 765915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Rathbone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Rathbone |
| SIGNATURE | RATHBONE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6208-7373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction
Most of the articles published in this special issue on Public Sport History and Community sport were presented at a symposium held both in person and online for international participants at Macqu
Physical education in French schools
Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, French physical developed gymnastics programmes, promoted their services through the press, and lobbied the central and local governments. The efforts of these physical cultural reforms brought about a transformation in athletic practices in France, especially in French schools, that has a continued relevance. The historiographic debate on sport in French education environments emphasises the …
Lacunas and Triangulation
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: The politics of the body in modern France Get access Keith Rathbone Keith Rathbone Macquarie University, Australia The author may be contacted at [email protected]. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6208-7373 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, crad001, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad001 Published: 25 August 2023 Article history Received: 15 January 2023 Accepted:…
Response to Robert Fassolette and Mark Rylance
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Keith Rathbone, ‘Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France’, Sport in History 43, no. 1 (2023): 55–80.2 See for example, the very funny ‘Treize et quinze’, Match, February 5, 1935.3 Henry Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy: 1944–1980 (Paris: Seuil, 1987), passim.4 Keith Rathbone, Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, Age…
The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era
Saverio Battente's book is a bold, fascinating, and too often exasperating investigation into the longue durée links between Greek, Roman, and modern European sport. He aims to “reflect on the idea of sport in the contemporary era through synchronic and diachronic comparisons among various locations and time periods, attempting to identify longues durées as well as original and innovative aspects” (ix). Battente argues that there are significant …
Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France
Since the 1990s, scholars interested in French Rugby League have argued that the Fédération française de rugby, France’s Rugby Union organisation, and especially its honorary president Paul Voivenel, collaborated with a cabal inside the Vichy government to destroy their League rivals who had ‘rebelled against the authority of French rugby’. Although the Vichy regime absolutely attacked Rugby League, the evidence for a conspiracy between Rugby Uni…
Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
In Olympia , Leni Riefenstahl offered representations of idealized Aryan athletes and their democratic counterparts, including Jesse Owens. Her evocative images shaped historical memory and the historiography of the Berlin Games as either a German propaganda victory or a moment of athletic antifascist resistance. The notion of the Berlin Games populated with ‘democratic’ and ‘fascist’ athletes is largely ahistorical. Riefenstahl’s fascist/antifas…
Athletes for France or Athletes for the Church
This article explores the relationship between the Church and state during the Occupation through a close examination of the Vichy’s programme of physical education and sports at the national, regional and local level. Vichy officials wanted physical culture to rejuvenate the French people after the defeat; Church officials saw athleticism as a way of attracting young men and women to the Church. Vichy’s attempt to rationalize physical education …
Save the Long Skirt’
Following the First World War, opportunities for female French athletes expanded as women organized sporting associations, competed in new sports including soccer and rugby, and founded their own athletic federation. The French feminist movement also enjoyed considerable success during the interwar period, winning greater educational, legal, and political freedoms. The concurrent rise of French women’s sport and the feminist movement encouraged s…
Daniel Lee, Pétain’s Jewish Children
Vichy France and Everyday Life
"Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939–1945." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(2), pp. 37–38
The Stadium Century
Book Review| July 01 2018 The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship, and Mass Society in Modern France Lewis, Robert. The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship, and Mass Society in Modern France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. vi+233. Index and illustrations. £75.00, hb. Keith Rathbone Keith Rathbone Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (2): 260–261.…
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The Stadium Century
Book Review| July 01 2018 The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship, and Mass Society in Modern France Lewis, Robert. The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship, and Mass Society in Modern France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. vi+233. Index and illustrations. £75.00, hb. Keith Rathbone Keith Rathbone Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (2): 260–261.…
Athletes for France or Athletes for the Church
This article explores the relationship between the Church and state during the Occupation through a close examination of the Vichy’s programme of physical education and sports at the national, regional and local level. Vichy officials wanted physical culture to rejuvenate the French people after the defeat; Church officials saw athleticism as a way of attracting young men and women to the Church. Vichy’s attempt to rationalize physical education …
Save the Long Skirt’
Following the First World War, opportunities for female French athletes expanded as women organized sporting associations, competed in new sports including soccer and rugby, and founded their own athletic federation. The French feminist movement also enjoyed considerable success during the interwar period, winning greater educational, legal, and political freedoms. The concurrent rise of French women’s sport and the feminist movement encouraged s…
Daniel Lee, Pétain’s Jewish Children
Vichy France and Everyday Life
"Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939–1945." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(2), pp. 37–38
Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
In Olympia , Leni Riefenstahl offered representations of idealized Aryan athletes and their democratic counterparts, including Jesse Owens. Her evocative images shaped historical memory and the historiography of the Berlin Games as either a German propaganda victory or a moment of athletic antifascist resistance. The notion of the Berlin Games populated with ‘democratic’ and ‘fascist’ athletes is largely ahistorical. Riefenstahl’s fascist/antifas…
Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France
Since the 1990s, scholars interested in French Rugby League have argued that the Fédération française de rugby, France’s Rugby Union organisation, and especially its honorary president Paul Voivenel, collaborated with a cabal inside the Vichy government to destroy their League rivals who had ‘rebelled against the authority of French rugby’. Although the Vichy regime absolutely attacked Rugby League, the evidence for a conspiracy between Rugby Uni…
The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era
Saverio Battente's book is a bold, fascinating, and too often exasperating investigation into the longue durée links between Greek, Roman, and modern European sport. He aims to “reflect on the idea of sport in the contemporary era through synchronic and diachronic comparisons among various locations and time periods, attempting to identify longues durées as well as original and innovative aspects” (ix). Battente argues that there are significant …
Lacunas and Triangulation
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: The politics of the body in modern France Get access Keith Rathbone Keith Rathbone Macquarie University, Australia The author may be contacted at [email protected]. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6208-7373 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, crad001, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad001 Published: 25 August 2023 Article history Received: 15 January 2023 Accepted:…
Response to Robert Fassolette and Mark Rylance
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Keith Rathbone, ‘Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France’, Sport in History 43, no. 1 (2023): 55–80.2 See for example, the very funny ‘Treize et quinze’, Match, February 5, 1935.3 Henry Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy: 1944–1980 (Paris: Seuil, 1987), passim.4 Keith Rathbone, Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, Age…
Physical education in French schools
Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, French physical developed gymnastics programmes, promoted their services through the press, and lobbied the central and local governments. The efforts of these physical cultural reforms brought about a transformation in athletic practices in France, especially in French schools, that has a continued relevance. The historiographic debate on sport in French education environments emphasises the …
Introduction
Most of the articles published in this special issue on Public Sport History and Community sport were presented at a symposium held both in person and online for international participants at Macqu
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works)