Sports History

This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers...

After fifty years of celebration, the Super Bowl represents the broadest ‘shared experience’ in contemporary American culture and has become a new national holiday...

This is the first book to examine the full history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key indiv..

This is the first book to examine the full history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key indiv..

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland’s history. This collection of chapters, contributed by some of Ireland’s most preeminent historians, showcases the richness and complexity of Ireland’s sporting heritage._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

Fully exploring the links between swimming and other aspects of English society including; class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports amateur/professional divide, this unique book is the first of its kind and will be an important landmark in t..

From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical ac..

A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians...

This book examines how sports have evolved into essential elements in forging nationhood in American history. From horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in the colonial era and early republic to the grand troika of baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later, sport has long ..

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets and it’s principle aim is to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature...

This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning’s stat..

This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning’s stat..