Routledge Handbook of Sport History

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.

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