A Political History of Sport in Sweden

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A Political History of Sport in Sweden is written by Jens Ljunggren and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031461851 (ISBN 10) and 9783031461859 (ISBN 13).

This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and people’s different approaches to sport in everyday life. By investigating how different ways of pursuing and conceptualizing sport have progressed and interacted, and how they have influenced as well been influenced by sport politics, this book discerns the role of both governmental and municipal politics in the development of sport in Sweden.