| Description |
viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations |
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SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Sport history and postmodernism / Murray G. Phillips -- Sport historians : what do we do? How do we do it? / Douglas Booth -- Sport history between the modern and postmodern / Brett Hutchins -- A linguistic turn into sport history / Michael Oriard -- Partial knowledge : photographic mystifications and constructions of "the African athlete" / John Bale -- Anecdotal evidence : sport, the newspaper press, and history / Jeffrey Hill -- Wasn't it ironic? The Haxey hood and the great war / Catriona M. Parratt -- Decentering "race" and (re)presenting "Black" performance in sport history : basketball and jazz in American culture, 1920-1950 / S.W. Pope -- Beyond traditional sports historiography : toward a historical "holograph" / Robert E. Rinehart -- Contact with God, body, and soul : sport history and the radical orthodoxy project / Synthia Sydnor -- Time gentlemen please : the space and place of gender in sport history / Patricia Vertinsky |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history, and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past. Murray Phillips from the University of Queensland |
| Analysis |
Sports - general (Australia) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- History.
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| Author |
Phillips, Murray.
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| LC no. |
2004030963 |
| ISBN |
0791466094 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0791466108 paperback alkaline paper |
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