Sports History / Edition 1

by Wray Vamplew

Overview

Once winners started to be recorded Sports History began. Academic Sports History, however, was much longer in coming and there was no concerted productivity in the field till the 1970s. Two strands developed: one out of Physical Education whose practitioners mainly saw Sports History as facts and stories about past performances; the other started by historians and focusing on the social—matters of gender, ethnicity, identity, and class. Now a well-established discipline, Sports History is studied throughout the world. This new four-volume collection gathers together the key material, exemplifying the very best in Sports History scholarship. Including a new introduction and a full index, Sports History is a valuable one-stop research resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415837477
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/02/2014
Series:	Critical Concepts in Sports Studies
Pages:	1822
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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 Mac Lean
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

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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 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

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