Routledge Companion to Sports History
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-77339-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 17th December 2009
- Pages: 672
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About the Book
The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.
Table of Contents
1. Theory in Sports History 2. Practicing Sorcery: Revisiting the Sports Historians Craft 3. Sport Historians, the City and the New Social History 4. "Borderlands, Frontiers, and the Writing of Sport History: Confronting the ‘Metropolitan Fallacy’" 5. Marxist Approaches 6. Sports History and Sociology of Sport 7. Origins: Sport in the Ancient Western World 8. Gender 9. Race 10. Body Cultures 11. Science and Technology 12. Entrepreneurship and Sport History 13. Religion 14. Politics 15. International Relations 16. Imperialism 17. Nationalism 18. Postcolonialism 19. Globalization 20. Action Sports 21. Africa (Sub-Saharan) 22. Australia 23. Canada 24. The Caribbean 25. China 26. Central and Eastern Europe 27. England and Wales 28. France 29. Germany 30. The Indian Subcontinent 31. Ireland 32. Japan 33. The Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) 34. The Middle East 35. Mexico and Central America 36. New Zealand (Aotearoa) 37. Nordic Countries 38. Russia/Soviet Union 39. South America 40. South East Asia 41. The United States of America
About the Author(s)
John Nauright is Director of the Academy of International Sport and Professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University, Virginia. He is also Visiting Professor of Sports Studies in the Department of Sports Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.
S. W. Pope is Director of the International Center for Performance Excellence at West Virginia University. During 2003 he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and was Senior Lecturer of American history at the University of Lincoln between 2004-2008. He received a PhD (history) from the University of Maine in 1993.