The Oxford handbook of sports history /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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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.