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Routledge Companion to Sports History

Edited by S. W. Pope, John Nauright

Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge – 656 pages

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

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The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.

Reviews

"comprehensive overview of the field of sports history as it now stands … Recommended", LA Heaphy, Choice.

Contents

1. Theory in Sports History Douglas Booth 2. Practicing Sorcery: Revisiting the Sports Historians Craft Gary Osmond and Murray Phillips 3. Sport Historians, the City and the New Social History Gerald Gems 4. "Borderlands, Frontiers, and the Writing of Sport History: Confronting the ‘Metropolitan Fallacy’" Colin Howell and Daryl Leeworthy 5. Marxist Approaches Ian Ritchie 6. Sports History and Sociology of Sport Louise Mansfield and Dominic Malcolm 7. Origins: Sport in the Ancient Western World Donald Kyle 8. Gender Susan Bandy 9. Race David Wiggins and John Nauright 10. Body Cultures Henning Eichberg 11. Science and Technology Verner Møller 12. Entrepreneurship and Sport History Dilwyn Porter 13. Religion William Baker 14. Politics Mike Cronin 15. International Relations Barbara Keys 16. Imperialism Steven Pope 17. Nationalism Matti Goksøyr 18. Postcolonialism Grant Farred 19. Globalization Maarten van Bottenburg 20. Action Sports Robert Rinehart 21. Africa (Sub-Saharan) John Nauright 22. Australia Daryl Adair 23. Canada Amanda Schweinbenz 24. The Caribbean Alan Cobley 25. China Fan Hong 26 Central and Eastern Europe Marek Waic, Stefan Zwick and Tomas Pavlin 27. England and Wales Martin Johnes 28. France Thierry Terret 29. Germany Arnd Krüger 30. The Indian Subcontinent Chris Valiotis 31. Ireland David Hassan and Philip O’Kane 32. Japan Richard Light 33. The Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Ruud Stokvis 34. The Middle East Mahfoud Amara 35. Mexico and Central America Richard McGehee 36. New Zealand (Aotearoa) Malcolm MacLean 37. Nordic Countries Henrik Meinander 38. Russia/Soviet Union Jim Riordan 39. South America Cesar Torres 40. South East Asia Charles Little 41. The United States of America Mark Dyreson Afterword. Peter Stearns

Author Bio

John Nauright is Director of the Academy of International Sport and Professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University, Virginia. He is also Visiting Professor of Sports Studies in the Department of Sports Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.

S. W. Pope is Director of the International Center for Performance Excellence at West Virginia University. During 2003 he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and was Senior Lecturer of American history at the University of Lincoln between 2004-2008. He received a PhD (history) from the University of Maine in 1993.

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