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The Oxford handbook of sports history / edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in history.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--History.
- Sports.
- History.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Sports history
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Orwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting," nor are they "war by other means." Although sports have generated animosity throughout human history, they also require rules. Those rules limit violence, even death. Thus sports have been a significant part of a historical "civilizing process." This volume combines the efforts of sports historians with essays by historians whose careers have been devoted to more traditional topics. It shows how sports have evolved from ancient societies to the world today.
- Contents:
- Class and Sport / Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Sasu Siegelbaum
- Introduction / Robert Edelman, Wayne Wilson
- Sport and Social Theory / Douglas Hartmann
- Sport and Political Doctrine in a Post-Ideological Age / John Hoberman
- Sport History and the Historical Profession / David McDonald
- Ancient Greek and Roman Sport / Donald G. Kyle
- Early Modern Sport / Mike Huggins
- Industrialization and Sport / Wray Vamplew
- Communications and Journalism / John Carvalho
- Diffusion and Empire / Laurent Dubois
- The 'Somatic/Linguistic Turn' and Histories of Exercise and Sport / Richard Gruneau
- Cricket: The Indianization of an Imperial Game / Amit Gupta
- Surfing: A Global Phenomenon / Douglas Booth
- Sport in China / Susan Brownell
- South Asian Sport / Boria Majumdar
- Diffusion and Transformation of Western Sports in North Asia / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
- Sport in Russia and Eastern Europe / Mauricio Borrero
- Sport in West and North Europe / Christopher Young
- Sport in Latin America / Brenda Elsey
- The Changing Field of Sports History in Australasia / Gary Osmond
- Contemporary Globalization and Recent Olympic Leadership / Stephen R. Wenn, Robert K. Barney
- Sport and Urbanization / Michael T. Friedman, Jacob Bustad
- WADA and Doping in World Sport / Thomas M. Hunt
- 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
- The Visual Turn in Sport History / Mike O'Mahony
- Sports and Sexuality / Erik N. Jensen
- Sport in Africa / Pascal Charitas
- Sport in Southern Europe / Andrew McFarland
- Sport in the Middle East / Alon K. Raab
- Baseball's Global Diffusion / Rob Ruck
- The Global Spread of Football / Matthew Taylor
- Medieval Sport / Angela Gleason.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780199984749
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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