ABSTRACT
The 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|83 pages
History and representing the sporting past
part 2|105 pages
New perspectives on old themes
part 3|70 pages
Emerging themes
part 4|45 pages
Indigenous sport history
part 5|75 pages
Sport history journals
chapter 44|7 pages
The International Journal of the History of Sport 1984–20201
chapter 45|7 pages
The History of Sporting Traditions
chapter 46|7 pages
Materiales Para La Historia Del Deporte
chapter 47|7 pages
Recorde — Revista de História do Esporte
part 6|6 pages
Conclusion