Sports History

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. ..

Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: the Struggle for Self-fulfilment records the pulling down of European barriers via the medium of sport to the realisation of ability and the release of talent and the pushing aside of crushing inhibitions, inexcusable irrationality, intolerable prejudice..

This book focuses on the emergence and expansion of media markets; high-performance sport’s transformation by, and effects upon, Cold War dynamics and inter-relations and the implications of the Treaty of Rome for an emerging European identity in sport as in other areas. It traces the connections be..

This book focuses on the emergence and expansion of media markets; high-performance sport’s transformation by, and effects upon, Cold War dynamics and inter-relations and the implications of the Treaty of Rome for an emerging European identity in sport as in other areas. It traces the connections be..

Going from geography to political science, from sports history to urban and transport history, the book brings together complementary studies on the interrelation between sport and urban space in a European context._x005F_x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the International J..

Going from geography to political science, from sports history to urban and transport history, the book brings together complementary studies on the interrelation between sport and urban space in a European context._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal..

Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written._x000D_ This book was publ..

Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written._x005F_x000D_ This book wa..

This book draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport, looking at both mainstream and less well studied sports...

Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, this book argues that, far from the purity of sport being ‘corrupted’ by capitalism, modern sport is as much a product of capitalism..

Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, this book argues that, far from the purity of sport being ‘corrupted’ by capitalism, modern sport is as much a product of capitalism..

This collection offers new insights on the role of sport in defining and shaping local, regional, national, and international cultures in the Americas. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport...