Routledge Companion to Sports History

ISBN-13: 9780415501941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 656 str.

S W Pope

Opis

The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the Routledge Companion to Sports History. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world's leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.　

Spis treści

Theory, Methods, and Key Themes in Sports History  Introduction: The Field of Sports History Around the World  Chapter 1: Theory  Chapter 2: Sources  Chapter 3: The City  Chapter 4: Borderlands  Chapter 5: Marxism  Chapter 6: Sociology  Chapter 7: Origins  Chapter 8: Gender  Chapter 9: Race  Chapter 10: Bodies  Chapter 11: Science and Technology  Chapter 12: Entrepreneurship  Chapter 13: Religion  Chapter 14: Imperialism  Chapter 15: International Relations  Chapter 16: Nationalism  Sports History Around the World  Chapter 17: Africa (Sub-Saharan)  Chapter 18: Australia  Chapter 19: Belgium and the Netherlands  Chapter 20: Canada  Chapter 21: The Caribbean  Chapter 22: China  Chapter 23: Central and Eastern Europe  Chapter 24: France  Chapter 25: Germany  Chapter 26: Great Britain  Chapter 27: Ireland  Chapter 28: Japan  Chapter 29: Middle East and North Africa  Chapter 30: Mexico and Central America  Chapter 31: New Zealand (Aotearoa)  Chapter 32: Nordic Countries  Chapter 33: Russia/Soviet Union  Chapter 34: South America  Chapter 35: South Asia  Chapter 36: South East Asia  Chapter 37: The United States of America