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Press, 1989), and Patricia Vertinsky’s The Eternally Wounded Woman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994). Manchester University Press first published the latter in 1989.
5 Thompson, The Poverty of Theory, p. 68. 6 Although as Keith Jenkins points out, sport historians are not unique in this respect (Refiguring
History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline [London: Routledge, 2003], pp. 36-9). 7 Alex Callinicos, Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History (Cambridge: Polity
Press 1995), p. 3. See also, Mark Cousins, ‘The Practice of Historical Investigation’, in Derek Attridge, Geoff Bennington and Robert Young (eds), Structuralism and the Question of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 126-36.
