History of sport

Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.

Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences.

Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945.

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945.

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history.

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history.

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires.

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally.

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally.

This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan.

Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians.

Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians.

This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan.

The author has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and the direct relationship between sport and politics.

The author has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and the direct relationship between sport and politics.

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports.

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports.

Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant.

Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant.

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments.

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments.

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged.

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts.

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts.

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others.

As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others.

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe.

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe.

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport.

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport.

This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939.

This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939.

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.