Sports History Books

New and Published Books

1. Study Skills for Sports Studies

   By Tara Magdalinski

   Starting university can be a daunting prospect, as students come to grips with new ways of working, learning and thinking. Studying sport at university poses particular challenges, with students often engaged in playing or coaching sport alongside their studies and having unconventional working...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport and Nationalism in China

   By Zhouxiang Lu, Fan Hong

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This is the first book to comprehensively map the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

   States, media and markets 1950-2010

   Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt

   Series: CRESC

   In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. The History of Motor Sport

   A Case Study Analysis

   Edited by David Hassan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   This book examines the evolution of motor sport from its creation in central Europe, throughout the rest of the continent and elsewhere, including in both North and South America. It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport....

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Sport and Film

   By Seán Crosson

   Series: Frontiers of Sport

   The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural forms. This book...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
7. Sport in Capitalist Society

   A Short History

   By Tony Collins

   Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

    Communists and Champions

    By Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge