Sports History

VOLUME ONE: AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY Introduction - Wray Vamplew and Mark Dyreson Part One: Pioneers The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport, 1850-1900 - John Rickards Betts Sporting Days in Eighteenth Century England - Dennis Brailsford Cricket and Australian Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century - W.F. Mandle Part Two: Inside and Outside the Archives Sites of Truth or Metaphors of Power? Refiguring the Archive - Douglas Booth Sport Talk: Oral History and Its Uses, Problems, and Possibilities for Sport History - Susan K. Cahn Sport History as Modes of Expression: Material Culture and Cultural Spaces in Sport and History - Linda Borish and Murray Phillips Part Three: Using Theory The Consecration of Sport: Idealism in Social Science Theory - Douglas Booth Concepts of Capital: An Approach Shot to the History of the British Sports Club before 1914 - Wray Vamplew The Nature of Sport under Capitalism and Its Relationship to the Capitalist Labour Process - Bob Stewart Assessing Sport History and the Cultural and Linguistic Turn - Colin Howell Part Four: Contextual Approaches How to Read Historical Context Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914 - Eric Hobsbawm How to Avoid Misreading Historical Context "The Only Woman in All Greece": Kyniska, Agesilaus, Alcibiades and Olympia - Donald Kyle Part Five: Innovatory Approaches How to Read the Media Reading, Watching, and Listening to Football - Michael Oriard How to Swim against the Currents of Context A History of Synchronized Swimming - Synthia Sydnor Part Six: Areas of Challenge: Emotion, Children and Eroticism Emotion Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport - Barbara Keys Children Child Work or Child Labour? The Caddie Question in Edwardian Golf - Wray Vamplew A Blinkered Approach? Attitudes towards Children and Young People in British Horseracing and Equestrian Sport - Joyce Kay Eroticism Spartan Girls, French Postcards, and the Male Gaze: Another Go at Eros and Sports - Allen Guttmann VOLUME TWO: MORE THAN A GAME Part One: Gender "Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch": The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry - Elliott Gorn From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920-1960 - Pamela Grundy Caster Semenya and the "Question of Too": Sex Testing in Elite Women's Sport and the Issue of Advantage - Jaime Schultz Part Two: Race and Ethnicity Basketball and the Culture-Change Process: The Rimrock Navajo Case - Kendall Blanchard The Quest for Subcommunities and the Rise of American Sport - Benjamin Rader Basketball and Magic in 'Middletown': Locating Sport and Culture in American Social Science - Mark Dyreson Part Three: Associativity A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport - Stefan Szymanski The Role of Associativity in the Evolution of Modern Sport: A Comment on Stefan Szymanski's Theory - Klaus Nathaus Part Four: Sport as Consumer Culture Where Did You Go, Jackie Robinson? Or, the End of History and the Age of Sport Infrastructure - Stephen Hardy The Rise of "The World's Largest Sport and Athletic Outfitters": A Study of Gamage's of Holborn, 1878-1913 - Geraldine Biddle-Perry Part Five: Sport and Nation` Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s - Barbara Keys "I Can Compete!" China in the Olympic Games, 1932 and 1936 - Andrew Morris The Republic of Consumption at the Olympic Games: Globalization, Americanization, and Californization - Mark Dyreson Part Six: Sport and International Relations The Relevance of the "Irrelevant": Football as a Missing Dimension in the Study of British Relations with Germany - Peter Beck Japan's Sports Diplomacy in the Early Post-Second World War Years - Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu Global Players? Football, Migration and Globalization - Matthew Taylor Part Seven: Sport and the First World War 'Leather' and the Fighting Spirit: Sport in the British Army in World War I - Eliza Riedi and Tony Mason Exploding the Myths of Sport and the First World War: A First Salvo - Wray Vamplew "The First Ever Anti-Football Painting"? - Iain Adams and John Hughson VOLUME THREE: A FORCE FOR GOOD? Part One: The Civilizing Process: The British Debate History, Theory and the "Civilizing Process" - Tony Collins Sociological versus Empiricist History: Some Comments on Tony Collins's 'History, Theory and the "Civilizing Process"' - Graham Curry, Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard Part Two: Football Hooliganism Football Hooliganism in Britain before the First World War - Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, John Williams and Joseph Maguire Football Hooliganism Revisited: A Belated Reply to Patrick Murphy, Eric Dunning and Joseph Maguire - Robert Lewis Part Three: The Civilizing Process: America Sports Spectators from Antiquity to the Renaissance - Allen Guttmann Spectators and Crowds in Sport History: A Critical Analysis of Allen Guttmann's Sports Spectators - Donald Kyle A Modernist's View - Melvin Adelman Part Four: Opposition to Sport Criticisms against the Value-Claim for Sport and the Physical Ideal in Late Nineteenth Century Australia - David W. Brown Anti-Sport: Victorian Examples from Oxbridge - John Bale Rethinking the History of Criticism of Organised Sport - G.K. Peatling Part Five: The Dark Side Discourses of Deception: Cheating in Professional Running - Peter Mewett Only the Ring Was Square: Frankie Carbo and the Underworld Control of American Boxing - Steven A. Riess Lord Bentinck, the Jockey Club and Racing Morality in Mid-Nineteenth Century England: The "Running Rein" Derby Revisited - Mike Huggins VOLUME FOUR: FLEXIBLE BOUNDARIES Part One: As Others See Us Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's 'Last Man Picked' - Malcolm MacLean Sport in Modern European History: Trajectories, Constellations, Conjunctures - Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young Common Ground? Links between Sports History, Sports Geography and the Sociology of Sport - Joe Maguire Economists and Sports History - Stefan Szymanski Dancing on the Edge of Disciplines: Law and the Interdisciplinary Turn - Ken Foster and Guy Osborn Part Two: Time and Space Sport, Society and Space: The Changing Geography of County Cricket in South Australia 1836-1914 - Clive Forster Village Greens, Commons Land and the Emergence of Sports Law in the UK - Jack Anderson Part Three: Modernisation From Ritual to Record - Allen Guttmann Of Remembering and Forgetting: From Ritual to Record and Beyond - Colin Howell The Problems with Ritual and Modernization Theory, and Why We Need Marx: A Commentary on From Ritual to Record - Susan Brownell Part Four: Borderlands Borderlands, Baselines and Bearhunters - Colin Howell The Foot Runners Conquer Mexico and Texas: Endurance Racing, Indigenismo, and Nationalism' - Mark Dyreson Part Five: Sport as a Culture-Making Tool Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight - Clifford Geertz What Is Art? - C.L.R. James Part Six: Sports History for Public Consumption A Historian in the Museum: Story Spaces and Australia's Sporting Past - Murray Phillips Sport History, Public History, and Popular Culture: A Growing Engagement - Kevin Moore Writing Sports History for "Non-Specialists": A Reply to the Review Symposium on Adair and Vamplew's Sport in Australian History, and the State of Australian Sports History - Daryl Adair

A welter of searchable online databases can help scholars find their way through the increasing store of published sports history research. Still, a need exists for comprehensive, edited anthologies to assist researchers by pointing to influential works in the field. Eminent sports historians Mark Dyreson and Wray Vamplew provide such a guide in their four-volume collection of readings, "Sports History: Issues, Debates and Challenges". By assembling these key articles, however, the editors have done more than that - they have also curated a collection that charts and reflects the major developments in sports history, reflecting the myriad approaches, questions, perspectives, debates and 'turns' in the sub-discipline. Keep this one handy. -- Gary Osmond This four-volume set is a judicious selection and an essential reference for research and teaching about sports history. It has been assembled by two of our finest sports historians to provide the foundational scholarship and the key controversies in sports history and historiography. It will be of lasting value to scholars and students. -- William W. Kelly This well set-out collection of readings provides the definitive guide to the major issues, debates and challenges that have engulfed sport history scholarship over the last six decades. Drawn from a wide variety of pre-eminent journals and a host of seminal books, the items are arranged under intuitive sub-headings that allow the reader to either read systematically or to browse on a special topic of interest. At first glance the list of contributors reads like a who's who of the discipline, but on closer examination it is clear that the views of venerated academics are counter-pointed by the work of emerging young scholars from around the world. This makes the collection much more than a dry compendium. The compilation is, in fact, an animated, challenging and enlightening dialogue about 'doing sports history'. -- Rob Hess This four volume work with papers from well-known academics will be a major contribution to the international field of sport history. It not only covers various time periods, movement cultures and groups but also focuses on theoretical and archival backgrounds, and unusual topics such as emotions and eroticism, international relations or sport history as public consumption. Through this wide approach it differs from other publications, and shows a very innovative character. -- Annette R. Hofmann Vamplew and Dyreson expertly clearly demonstrate that the sport history world is one of plurality. They use material, drawn from publications across the globe, to show that there are different approaches, perspectives and interpretations. These volumes are essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature and development of the subject. -- Professor Fan Hong