The Oxford handbook of sports history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edelman, Robert, 1945- (Author), Wilson, Wayne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson
  • Part I. Theorizing sport history
  • Sport and social theory / Douglas Hartmann
  • Sport and political doctrine in a post-ideological age / John Hoberman
  • The "Somatic/linguistic turn and histories of exercise and sport / Richard Gruneau
  • Sport history and the historical profession / David McDonald
  • Part II. Pre-modern sport
  • Ancient Greek and Roman sport / Donald G. Kyle
  • Medieval sport / Angela Gleason
  • Early modern sport / Mike Huggins
  • Part III. The birth and establishment of modern sport, 1820-1940
  • Industrialization and sport / Wray Vamplew
  • Sport and urbanization / Michael T. Friedman and Jacob Bustad
  • Communications and journalism / John Carvalho
  • Diffusion and empire / Laurent Dubois
  • Part IV. Patterns of diffusion
  • The Global Spread of Football / Matthew Taylor
  • Baseball's global diffusion / Rob Ruck
  • Cricket: the Indianization of an imperial game / Amit Gupta
  • Surfing: a global phenomenon / Douglas Booth
  • Part V. Sites of sports development
  • Sport in China / Susan Brownell
  • South Asian sport / Boria Majumdar
  • Diffusion and transformation of western sports in north Asia / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
  • Sport in the Middle East / Alon K. Raab
  • Sport in Africa / Pascal Charitas
  • Sport in Russia and Eastern Europe / Mauricio Borrero
  • Sport in west and north Europe / Christopher Young
  • Sport in southern Europe / Andrew McFarland
  • Sport in Latin America / Brenda Elsey
  • The changing field of sports history in Australasia / Gary Osmond
  • Part VI. New globalizations and their discontents
  • Contemporary globalization and recent Olympic leadership / Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney
  • WADA and doping in world sport / Thomas M. Hunt
  • Part VII. Reconsidering establshed categorires and conemplating new ones
  • Class and sport / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Sasu Siegelbaum
  • Gender matters in sport history / Patricia Vertinsky
  • Race and sport / Daniel Widener
  • Sport and national identity / Dilwyn Porter
  • History of sport and religion in the United States and Britain / Amy Koehlinger
  • Part VIII. Emerging areas of interest
  • The visual turn in sport history / Mike O'Mahony
  • Sports and sexuality / Erik N. Jensen.