Wrestling in Britain

Benjamin Litherland

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This is the first book t... Lees meer

A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Jean Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This book is an historical survey of women's sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports his... Lees meer

Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society

Susan Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, e... Lees meer

Women, Horse Sports and Liberation

Erica Munkwitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• *Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize* This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women's involvement in eq... Lees meer

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

Robert J Lake

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a ... Lees meer

Sport, War and the British

Peter Donaldson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played ... Lees meer

Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport mus... Lees meer

Making Sport History

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History | nr. 4
• How does the historian's approach to the history of sport differ from those trained in the social sciences or in physical education? All three have co... Lees meer

Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History | nr. 1
• We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport mus... Lees meer

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017

Stephen Wagg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness... Lees meer

Sport and Polish Society in the Communist Era

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Marcin Stasiak

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Using the history of sport in the small towns and local communities of Poland, this book shines new light on the everyday reality of life under a comm... Lees meer

Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-America... Lees meer

Britain's Olympic Women

Jean Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men's sport. This is the first book... Lees meer

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017

Stephen Wagg

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness... Lees meer

The Emergence of Football

Peter Swain

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people's game aga... Lees meer

Sports Coaching in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and ... Lees meer

A History of Chinese Martial Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Chinese martial arts have a long, meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy, philosophy a... Lees meer

Sports Media History

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the ninetee... Lees meer

The Early Development of Football

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh pe... Lees meer

The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955

Brian Carroll

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading ... Lees meer

Association Football

Graham Curry, Eric Dunning

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurationa... Lees meer

Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society

Susan Grant

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History | nr. 2
• From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, e... Lees meer

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

Robert Lake

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a ... Lees meer

Taekwondo

Udo Moenig

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sports History
• This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, political, and technical evolution of taekwondo. Many of the supposedly 'traditional' a... Lees meer