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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">humanitieslaw</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Гуманитарные и юридические исследования</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Humanities and law research</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2409-1030</issn><publisher><publisher-name>North-Caucasus Federal University</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.37493/2409-1030.2025.4.4</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">humanitieslaw-1631</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORICAL SCIENCES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Спорт в концепции и практике «цивилизаторской миссии» Великобритании во второй половине XIX века</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Sport in the concept and practice of the “civilizing mission” of Great Britain in the second half of the XIX century</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0079-0151</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Гелла</surname><given-names>Т. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gella</surname><given-names>T. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Тамара Николаевна Гелла, Доктор исторических наук, профессор </p><p>95, ул. Комсомольская, Орел, 302026</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Tamara N. Gella, Dr. Sc. (History), Professor</p><p>95 Komsomolskaya St., Orel, 302026</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">gellat@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Орловский государственный университет имени И.С. Тургенева</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>23</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>4</issue><elocation-id>599–606</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Гелла Т.Н., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Гелла Т.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Gella T.N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://humanitieslaw.ncfu.ru/jour/article/view/1631">https://humanitieslaw.ncfu.ru/jour/article/view/1631</self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Введение</title><p>Введение. В статье анализируется роль спорта как своеобразного инструмента реализации англичанами политики «мягкой силы» во второй половине XIX в. в рамках Британской империи. Автором обращается внимание на спортивную составляющую в концепции «цивилизаторской миссии» британцев, а также на спортивное воспитание в рамках английской образовательной системы будущих колонизаторов, приводятся примеры распространения таких британских видов спорта, как крикет, регби и бокс, в колониях империи с акцентом на их местную специфику.</p></sec><sec><title>Материалы и методы</title><p>Материалы и методы. Методологической базой стали принципы объективности и историзма, исторические методы исследования: историко-системный и синхронный историко-сравнительный, предполагающий изучение одновременных исторических событий, а также историкогенетический метод, позволивший обозначить векторы распространения английских видов спорта в колониях Британской империи.</p></sec><sec><title>Анализ</title><p>Анализ. Проблематика имперской политики Великобритании в XIX в. является одной из самых дискутируемой в зарубежной и отечественной исторической науке. В настоящее время идеи о «цивилизаторской миссии» англичан подчас соотносятся с политикой «мягкой силы». Анализ исследовательской литературы свидетельствует о том, что для поддержания своей власти и своего авторитета в колониях английские правящие круги использовали различные как насильственные, так и мирные методы. В числе последних можно назвать стремления колонизаторов распространять среди местного населения британские культурные ценности и традиции. Важнейшим инструментом проявления «мягкой силы» в империи стал английский язык. Но особое место в культурном единстве Британской империи можно отвести спорту и играм, которые выступили цементирующим звеном между метрополией и колониями.</p></sec><sec><title>Результаты</title><p>Результаты. Изучение роли спорта как проявление «мягкой силы» в реализации цивилизаторской миссии Великобритании позволяет рассмотреть историю Британской империи и специфику колониальной системы управления более разносторонне, выявить те факторы, которые способствовали укреплению ее единства, и закладывали основы для будущего Содружества наций.</p></sec></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Introduction. The article analyzes the role of sport as a tool for the British to implement soft power policy in the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century. The author draws attention to the sports component in the concept of the “civilizational mission” of the British, as well as to sports education in the English educational system of future colonialists, provides examples of the spread of such British sports as cricket, rugby and boxing in the colonies of the empire with an emphasis on their local specifics.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>Materials and methods. The methodological basis includes the principles of objectivity and historicism, historical research methods: historical-systematic and synchronous historical-comparative, involving the study of simultaneous historical events, as well as the historical-genetic method, which made it possible to identify the vectors of the spread of English sports in the colonies of the British Empire.</p></sec><sec><title>Analysis</title><p>Analysis. The problems of British imperial policy in the 19th century are one of the most debated in foreign and domestic historical scholarship. Currently, the ideas of the “civilizing mission” of the British are sometimes viewed in correlation with the policy of soft power. An analysis of the research literature indicates that the British ruling circles used various violent and peaceful methods to maintain their power and authority in the colonies. Among the latter are the aspirations of the colonialists to spread British cultural values and traditions among the local population. The English language became the most important tool for the manifestation of soft power in the empire. But a special place in the cultural unity of the British Empire can be given to sports and games, which served as a cementing link between the metropolis and the colonies.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Results. Studying the role of sport as a manifestation of soft power in the implementation of the UK civilizing mission allows examining the history of the British Empire and the specifics of the colonial system of governance in a more diverse way, identifying those factors that contributed to strengthening its unity, and laid the foundations for the future Commonwealth of Nations.</p></sec></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Британская империя</kwd><kwd>цивилизаторская миссия</kwd><kwd>«мягкая сила»</kwd><kwd>спорт</kwd><kwd>бокс</kwd><kwd>крикет</kwd><kwd>регби</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>British Empire</kwd><kwd>civilizing mission</kwd><kwd>soft power</kwd><kwd>sport</kwd><kwd>boxing</kwd><kwd>cricket</kwd><kwd>rugby</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Гелла Т. Н. 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