Routledge Handbook of Sport History

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

Murray G. Phillips is a Professor of Sport History in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia, and President of the North American Society for Sport History. Douglas Booth is the Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University, Canada, Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. Carly Adams, is a Professor in the department of Kinesiology and Physical Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.

Foreword. Introduction. Part 1: History and Representing the Sporting Past. 1. History and Representing the Sporting Past: Introduction. 2. Reflexivity in Sports History. 3. The Last Comparative Review of Sport History and Sport Sociology? 4. Writing Macro and Micro Sport History. 5. Sports History and the Challenge of Physical Cultural Studies. 6. Narrative/s in Sport History. 7. Expanding Repertoires Inside and Outside the Archives: Methods. 8. Sport and Material Culture. 9. Why Read Historical Fiction about Sport? 10. Sport and Activism. Part 2: New Perspectives on Old Themes. 11. New Perspectives on Old Themes: Introduction. 12. The Origins and Diffusion of Modern Sport. 13. Time, Space and Sport. 14. Sport and the Body. 15. Sport and Visuality. 16. Sport and Politics. 17. Sport and International Relations. 18. Sport and Nationalism. 19. Race, Racism, and Racial Entanglements. 20. Sport in Post-apartheid South Africa: The Race to Class. 21. Women's Sport History. 22. Troubling Sexuality and Sport: Early Histories of Queer Athletic Visibility. Part 3: Emerging Themes. 23. Emerging Themes: Introduction. 24. Digital Sport History: History and Practice. 25. Teaching / Learning Sports History. 26. Competitive Gaming. 27. Sport and Emotion. 28. Sport Heritage. 29. Towards New Materialist Sport History. 30. Deaf and Disability Sport. 31. Sporting Borderlands. Part 4: Indigenous Sport History. 32. Indigenous Sport History: Introduction. 33. Settler Colonialism and Sport History. 34. M-ori and Indigenous Sport Histories: Hero/ine or Dupe? 35. A Critical Discussion of History and Indigenous Sport in Australia. 36. Indigenous Sport History in Canada: Past and Future Considerations. 37. American Indian Sport History. Part 5: Sport History Journals. 38. Sport History Journals: Introduction. 39. Sport History Journals and Neoliberalism: Auditing the Subdiscipline. 40. Fifty Years of Sport History Review. 41. The Journal of Sport History. 42. STADION: International Journal of the History of Sport. 43. The Sport in History Journal. 44. The International Journal of the History of Sport 1984-2020: Twenty-Four Million Words and Still Counting. 45. The History of Sporting Traditions: The Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History. 46. Materiales para la Historia del Deporte: The Journal on the History of Sport, a Reference for the Latin American World, with International Scope. 47. Recorde - Revista de História do Esporte: A Brazilian, Latin-American, Ibero-American Journal. Conclusion. 48. Sport History: Past, Present, Future