Sports History

Despite its relevance to the study of race, gender and class in society, sports history has long struggled to gain acceptance as a valuable sub-discipline by those operating within more traditional realms of historical research. This book examines how sport history may capitalise on its previous suc..

Despite its relevance to the study of race, gender and class in society, sports history has long struggled to gain acceptance as a valuable sub-discipline by those operating within more traditional realms of historical research. This book examines how sport history may capitalise on its previous suc..

This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economics as in no other industry do rival businesses have to cooperate to produce a sellable output. Another analysis examines how industrialisation affecte..

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired...

We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the Mary..

We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the Mary..

This book describes how the field of sports history has matured dramatically over the past decade, and expands on what this means for sports historians today. The specially commissioned essays, addressing a range of thematic and regional contexts that make up this companion make it a uniquely valuab..

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This work traces the history, achievements and prospects of football in India and among global south Asian communities...

This book provides a broad range of international case studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped sport...

This volume illuminates the evolving political, economic, environmental and cultural implications of sport in society. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of The History of Sport...

Sport and Revolutionaries examines the role that sport has played in political activism and revolutionary movements._x000D_ The book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. ..