Routledge Handbook of Sport History

he Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.

Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future development of the discipline. The book explores both traditional and non-traditional methodologies in sport history, and traces the interface between sport history and other fields of research, such as literature, material culture and the digital humanities. It considers the importance of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality and politics to our understanding of sport history, and focuses on innovative ways that the scholarship around these issues is challenging accepted discourses. This is the first handbook to include a full section on Indigenous sport history, a topic that has often been ignored in sport history surveys despite its powerful upstream influence on contemporary sport. The book also reflects carefully on the central importance of sport history journals in shaping the development of the discipline.

This book is an essential reference for any student, researcher or scholar with an interest in sport history or the relationship between sport and society. It will also be fascinating reading for any historians looking for fresh perspectives on contemporary historiography or social and cultural history.

Foreword
David K. Wiggins

Introduction
Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams

Part 1: History and Representing the Sporting Past

1. History and Representing the Sporting Past: Introduction
Douglas Booth, Carly Adams and Murray Phillips

2. Reflexivity in Sports History
Malcolm MacLean

3. The Last Comparative Review of Sport History and Sport Sociology?
Richard Pringle

4. Writing Macro and Micro Sport History
Mike Cronin

5. Sports History and the Challenge of Physical Cultural Studies
Mark Falcous

6. Narrative/s in Sport History
Daniel A. Nathan

7. Expanding Repertoires Inside and Outside the Archives: Methods
Gary Osmond

8. Sport and Material Culture
Maureen Smith

9. Why Read Historical Fiction about Sport?
Angie Abdou

10. Sport and Activism
Russell Field

Part 2: New Perspectives on Old Themes

11. New Perspectives on Old Themes: Introduction
Douglas Booth, Carly Adams and Murray G. Phillips

12. The Origins and Diffusion of Modern Sport
S.W. Pope

13. Time, Space and Sport
Peter Donnelly

14. Sport and the Body
Jaquelyn Osborne and Chelsea Litchfield

15. Sport and Visuality
Mike Huggins

16. Sport and Politics
Heather Dichter

17. Sport and International Relations
Bruce Kidd

18. Sport and Nationalism
Liam O’Callaghan

19. Race, Racism, and Racial Entanglements
Sarah Barnes and Mary G. McDonald

20. Sport in Post-apartheid South Africa: The Race to Class
Ashwin Desai

21. Women’s Sport History
Jaime Schultz, Michelle M. Sikes and Kat Ariail

22. Troubling Sexuality and Sport: Early Histories of Queer Athletic Visibility
Judy Davidson

Part 3: Emerging Themes

23. Emerging Themes: Introduction
Carly Adams, Douglas Booth and Murray G. Phillips

24. Digital Sport History: History and Practice
Jennifer Guiliano

25. Teaching / Learning Sports History
Tara Magdalinski

26. Competitive Gaming
Lu Zhouxiang

27. Sport and Emotion
Barbara Keys

28. Sport Heritage
Gregory Ramshaw

29. Towards New Materialist Sport History
Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice and Marianne Clark

30. Deaf and Disability Sport
Danielle Peers

31. Sporting Borderlands
Colin Howell and Daryl Leeworthy

Part 4: Indigenous Sport History

32. Indigenous Sport History: Introduction
Murray G. Phillips, Carly Adams and Douglas Booth

33. Settler Colonialism and Sport History
Murray G. Phillips

34. Māori and Indigenous Sport Histories: Hero/ine or Dupe?
Brendan Hokowhitu

35. A Critical Discussion of History and Indigenous Sport in Australia
Barry Judd and Gary Osmond

36. Indigenous Sport History in Canada: Past and Future Considerations
Christine O’Bonsawin and Janice Forsyth

37. American Indian Sport History
Jennifer Guiliano and Beth Eby

Part 5: Sport History Journals

38. Sport History Journals: Introduction
Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams

39. Sport History Journals and Neoliberalism: Auditing the Subdiscipline
Murray G. Phillips

40. Fifty Years of Sport History Review
M. Ann Hall

41. The Journal of Sport History
Andrew D. Linden and Alison M. Wrynn

42. STADION: International Journal of the History of Sport
Manfred Lämmer and Markwart Herzog

43. The Sport in History Journal
Dave Day and Kay Schiller

44. The International Journal of the History of Sport 1984-2020: Twenty-Four Million Words and Still Counting
Wray Vamplew

45. The History of Sporting Traditions: The Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History
Rob Hess

46. Materiales para la Historia del Deporte: The Journal on the History of Sport, a Reference for the Latin American World, with International Scope
Teresa González Aja and Rodrigo Pardo

47. Recorde – Revista de História do Esporte: A Brazilian, Latin-American, Ibero-American Journal
Rafael Fortes and Victor Andrade de Melo

Conclusion

48. Sport History: Past, Present, Future
Douglas Booth, Murray G. Phillips and Carly Adams