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Subject(s)

• Sports—History [Browse]
• Sports—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Edelman, Robert, 1945- [Browse]
• Wilson, Wayne [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Notes

Series from book jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Premodern 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 J. 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 established categorires and contemplating 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.

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ISBN

• 9780199858910 ((hardcover))
• 0199858918 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2016033956

OCLC

959032235

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