Methodology in sports history /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vamplew, Wray (Editor), Day, Dave (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Sports History / Wray Vamplew
  • 18. Cultural Studies and Sport History / Daniel A. Nathan
  • 19. Narrative Methods in Sport History Research: Biography, Collective Biography, and Prosopography / Samantha-Jayne Oldfield
  • 20. It's Good to Talk: Oral History, Sports History and Heritage / Fiona Skillen and Carol Osborne.