Sports History

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this irreverent, revisionist collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the problematic relationship between public respectability and private pleasure...

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this irreverent, revisionist collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the problematic relationship between public respectability and private pleasure...

This is a collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, showing how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined...

This is a collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, showing how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined...

This innovative approach to the history of British horse racing is a unique source of information. As well a comprehensive guide to traditional themes, the Encyclopedia provides reference on a broad range of less well-studied issues...

This collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of social cohesion and political assertion within sport..

This revisionist history of football challenges commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification a long history of an established and organized sport existed...

This revisionist history of football challenges commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification a long history of an established and organized sport existed...

Gender, Sport, Science..

This book is a multidisciplinary exploration into the development of modern sporting culture from global and transnational history perspectives. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society...

This book offers a complete understanding of the role of gymnastics and expressive movements in cultural and ideological transmission over time and identifies the impact of these concepts on American physical education, sports systems and sports cultures._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special i..

This book offers a complete understanding of the role of gymnastics and expressive movements in cultural and ideological transmission over time and identifies the impact of these concepts on American physical education, sports systems and sports cultures._x000D_ It was published as a special issue o..