Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sport and militarism: an introduction to a global phenomenon -- Part I Sport, militarism, and the state -- 2 Call of duty: sport and the urban citizen soldier -- 3 Weaponizing kinesiology: illuminating the militarization of the sport sciences -- 4 Baseball czars, war, and the US military -- 5 "Aktiv, Attraktiv, Anders"?: the Bundeswehr's deployment of sports soldiers -- 6 Sport and the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1899-1902 -- 7 The absence and presence of state militarism: violence, football, Narcos, and Colombia -- Part II Ritual productions of militarism in sport -- 8 "God Bless America": an anthem for American exceptionalism and empire -- 9 War games: the politics of war, torture, and grieving in Canada -- 10 The paradox of militaristic remembrance in British sport and popular culture -- 11 "Blood Warriors" and "Polite Siegfrieds": militarism and neo-nationalism in German media discourse after the 2014 World Cup -- 12 The military in Brazilian sport: a long and controversial presence -- 13 Uniforms and unanimity: reading the rhetorical entanglement of militarism and sport through mimetic realism -- Part III Disciplining gender through sport and militarism -- 14 The phallus and the pariah: the cultural politics of the post-9/11 sporting body -- 15 Trumpism, Tom Brady, and the reassertion of white supremacy in militarized post-9/11 America -- 16 Teaching violence: corporal punishment, vertical hierarchy, and the reproduction of militaristic values in contemporary Japanese sports -- 17 Verifying victory: the militarized politics of sex verification in international sports -- 18 "The woman who saved football in Georgia": a rhetoric of masculine virtue and Spartan motherhood -- Index