Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

ISBN-13: 9781349316939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 315 str.

S. Wagg

Opis

The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Wagg The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules football; T.Collins From Evil to Expedient: the Legalisation of Professionalism in English Football, 1884-85; D.Russell Peacefully, at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: the Quiet Death of Amateur Football in England; D.Porter Rough Manly Sport and the American Way: Theodore Roosevelt and College Football, 1905; M.Oriard Baseball, Invented Tradition, and Nationalistic Spirit; G.Gems 'Her Dainty Strength': Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the Coming of Female Sport Celebrity; S.Wagg Before and After 1968: Reconsidering the Introduction of Drug Testing in the Olympic Games; I.Ritchie The 'Revolt of the Black Athlete': Tommie Smith and John Carlos's 1968 Black Power Salute Reconsidered; M.Smith The D'Oliveira Affair: Cricket, 'Race' and Politics; R.Steen The Physical Activism of Billie Jean King; J.Schultz John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions; E.J.Gorn The 'Packer Affair' and the Early Marriage of Television and Sport; D.L.Andrews & A.D.Grainger All these Years of Hurt: Culture, Pedagogy and '1966' as a Site of National Myths; M.L.Silk & J.Francombe The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?; B.Keys

O autorze

DAVID L. ANDREWS Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, the University of Maryland, USA TONY COLLINS Professor of Sport History, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK JESSICA FRANCOMBE Doctoral student in the Department of Education, the University of Bath, UK GERALD R. GEMS Professor of Health and Physical Education, North Central College, Illinois, USA ELLIOTT J. GORN Professor of History, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA ANDY GRAINGER Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK BARBARA KEYS Lecturer in History, the University of Melbourne, Australia MICHAEL ORIARD Professor of English, Oregon State University, USA DILWYN PORTER Senior Research Fellow, the Centre for Sport and Culture, De Montfort University, UK IAN RITCHIE Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education and Kinesiology, Brock University, Canada DAVE RUSSELL Emeritus Professor of History and Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK JAIME SCHULTZ Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, USA MICHAEL SILK Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Bath University, UK MAUREEN SMITH Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, California State University, USA ROB STEEN Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism, Brighton University, UK STEPHEN WAGG Professor of Sport and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK