1st Edition

Methodology in Sports History

Edited By Wray Vamplew, Dave Day Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past, and without... Read more

1. Introduction: Sports History Methodology: Old and New



Dave Day and Wray Vamplew





2. A Bird’s-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History



Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond and Stephen Townsend





3. Diplomatic and International History: Athletes and Ambassadors



Heather L. Dichter





4. Still Playing Together(?): A Recall to Physical Education and Sport History Intersections



Geoffery Z. Kohe





5. Towards a Critical Dialogue between the History of Sport, Management History, and Sport Management/Organization Studies in Research and Teaching



Matthew L. McDowell





6. Geography and the Methodological Ballpark: Putting Place into Sports History



Chris Perkins





7. Methodology in Sports History: Learning from Legal Scholarship?



Jack Anderson





8. Parallel Fields: Labour History and Sports History



Matthew Taylor





9. Economics and (Modern) Sports History



Stefan Szymanski





10. The Development of Sport in Museums



J. Reilly





11. Archives and Historians of Sport



Martin Johnes





12. Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling: From Art History to Sport History



John Hughson





13. The Philosophy of Sport



Andrew Edgar





14. Durkheim and Sociological Method: Historical Sociology, Sports History, and the Role of Comparison



Dominic Malcolm





15. The Visual in Sport History: Approaches, Methodologies and Sources



Mike Huggins





16. Complexity, Critique, and Close Reading: Sport History and Literary Studies



Shannon R. Smith





17. In Praise of Numbers: Quantitative Spo

Biography

Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Stirling, UK, and Visiting Research Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research has gained awards from the North American Society for Sport History and the Australian Sports Commission. He is currently working on an international economic history of sport.





Dave Day is Professor of Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has a particular interest in the history of sports training and coaching, cross-cultural exchanges of sporting knowledge, the development of Victorian swimming communities, and the lives of working-class sportsmen and women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.