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The history of over one hundred years of the relationship between war and sport in Australia reveals that there has been an Anzac sporting tradition which has been affirmed, challenged and reinvented through the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Recent connections between war and sport in Anzac are the remnants of the distant ‘games ethic’ of late Victorian and Edwardian times. These were raised to national character traits when Anzac became part of Australian national identity.
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Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 257.
Martin Crotty, Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870–1920 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), p. 233.
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Blackburn, K. (2016). Conclusion. In: War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137487605_6
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