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