Forthcoming Sports History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Sport as History

   Essays in Honour of Wray Vamplew

   Edited by Tony Collins

   Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Soccer's Missing Men

   Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

   By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. A Contemporary History of Women's Sport

   By Jean Williams

   Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

   This work is an historical survey of women’s sport across the twentieth century and into the present day. Although the transfer from traditional to modern forms shifted noticeably in the eighteenth century, and accelerated in the nineteenth, this book’s focus is on the contemporary debates around...

   To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

   By Jules Boykoff

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this...

   To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Sport, Literature, Society

   Cultural Historical Studies

   Edited by Alexis Tadié, J.A. Mangan, Supriya Chaudhuri

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and sport has been little explored. Sport, Literature, Society looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging from Japan to England, from India to...

   To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Asian Americans in Sport and Society

   Edited by C. Richard King

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport

   Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan, Barry Judd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports. Historically, Australian sports have provided a rare and important social context in which Indigenous Australians could engage with and participate in non-Indigenous...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sport and the Emancipation of European Women

   The Struggle for Self-fulfilment

   Edited by Gigliola Gori, J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: the Struggle for Self-fulfilment explores the contributions of European women to the emancipation of women worldwide. It expands understanding of the need for their attitudes and actions and celebrates their achievements in freeing the female body from...

   To Be Published August 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

    By Alan Tomlinson

    In this book, the history and underlying political dynamics characterizing the growth of FIFA and its relationships with global-regional federations and international associations are detailed in a helpful and concise introduction....

    To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge