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The Oxford handbook of sports history
Title
The Oxford handbook of sports history / edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson.
ISBN
9780199984749 (ebook) :
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2017).
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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.
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Sports history
Oxford handbooks online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2017
Series
Oxford handbooks online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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.
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