Methodology in Sports History

ISBN-13: 9781138740587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Wray Vamplew; Dave Day

Opis

The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources, methods and approaches. This book deals with some of these innovations, and what emerges is that sports historians can, and should, look at different ways of doing research.

O autorze

Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Stirling, UK, and Visiting Research Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research has gained awards from the North American Society for Sport History and the Australian Sports Commission. He is currently working on an international economic history of sport. Dave Day is Professor of Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has a particular interest in the history of sports training and coaching, cross-cultural exchanges of sporting knowledge, the development of Victorian swimming communities, and the lives of working-class sportsmen and women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.