Routledge companion to sports history / edited by S.W. Pope and John Nauright.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 655 pages)

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Library of Congress genre(s)
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Series
Routledge international handbooks [More in this series]
Summary note
Presents comprehensive guidance to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. This book guides readers through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts. It is suitable for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • pt. I. Theory, methods and key themes in sports history. Introduction / S.W. Pope and John Nauright
  • Theory / Douglas Booth
  • Sources / Gary Osmond and Murray Phillips
  • The city / Gerald R. Gems
  • Borderlands / Colin Howell and Daryl Leeworthy
  • Marxism / Ian Ritchie
  • Sociology / Louise Mansfield and Dominic Malcolm
  • Origins / Donald G. Kyle
  • Gender / Susan J. Bandy
  • Race / John Nauright and David K. Wiggins
  • Body culture / Henning Eichberg
  • Science and technology / Verner Moller
  • Entrepreneurship / Dilwyn Porter
  • Religion / William J. Baker
  • Imperialism / S.W. Pope
  • International relations / Barbara Keys
  • Nationalism / Matti Goksoyr
  • Alternative sports / Robert E. Rinehart.
  • pt. II. Sports history around the world. Africa (sub-Saharan) / John Nauright
  • Australia / Daryl Adair
  • Belgium and the Netherlands / Ruud Stokvis
  • Canada / Amanda N. Schweinbenz
  • The Caribbean / Alan Gregor Cobley
  • Central and Eastern Europe / Marek Waic and Stefan Zwicker
  • China / Fan Hong
  • France / Thierry Terret
  • Germany / Arnd Kruger
  • Great Britain / Martin Johnes
  • Ireland / David Hassan and Philip O'Kane
  • Japan / Richard L. Light
  • Mexico and Central America / Richard V. McGehee
  • The Middle East and North Africa / Mahfoud Amara
  • New Zealand (Aotearoa) / Malcolm Maclean
  • Nordic countries / Niels Kayser Nielsen
  • Russia / the Soviet Union / James Riordan
  • South America / Cesar R. Torres
  • South Asia / Chris Valiotis
  • South-East Asia / Charles Little
  • The United States of America / Mark Dyreson.
ISBN
  • 9780203885413 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0203885414 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0415773393 ((hard copy ; : alk. paper))
  • 9780415773393 ((hard copy ; : alk. paper))
  • 1780347537
  • 9781780347530
  • 1135978123
  • 9781135978129
  • 1135978131
  • 9781135978136
  • 1282975269
  • 9781282975262
  • 9786612975264
  • 6612975261
OCLC
569410277
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203885413
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