Sport as history : essays in honour of Wray Vamplew
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Sport as history : essays in honour of Wray Vamplew
Routledge, 2011
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Sport in history
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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"Reproduction of Sport in history, vol. 29, issue 3"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Published to mark the career of one of sports history's pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history's leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written.
This Festschrift marks the retirement of Professor Wray Vamplew - an internationally-renowned leader in the field of sports history. His 1976 book The Turf was one of the very first academic histories of sport and he has been a prolific writer, scholar and teacher for almost forty years. No one has played such an important role in the field of sports history across North America, Europe and Australia. President of the Australian, Australian Society of Sports History (ASSH), the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), the European Committee for the History of Sport (CESH) and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), Vamplew is currently editor of the North American Society for Sports History's (NASSH) journal, the Journal of Sport History.
This collection reflects his interests and his appeal across the three continents, the essays deal with sport in America, Australia, Britain and Ireland and focus on the themes of national and regional identity, gender, trade unionism in sport and historiographical debates. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of sport and how it is studied today.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.
Table of Contents
1. 'An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society' Females on the Fairways, 1890-1914 2. Still Going After All These Years: Text, Truth and the Racing Calendar 3. The Proto-Globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American Interconnections 4. What Went Wrong with Counting? Thinking about Sport and Class in Britain and Ireland 5. Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today 6. The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War Two 7. Boxers United: Trade Unionism in British Boxing in the 1930s 8. Deeply Honoured: The Rise and Significance of the British Sporting Award, 1945-c.1970 9. 'In a Yorkshire Like Way': Cricket and the Construction of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire 10. 'Egg and Chips with the Connellys': Remembering 1966 11. Wray Vamplew: A Bibliography 1969-2008
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