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The Oxford Handbook Of Sports Historyprovides A Comprehensive And Rigorous Survey Of The Field Of Sports History, Proving That Sports Are Not Only The Opposite Of War But Have Also Been A Significant Part Of A Historical Civilizing Process. With Contributions From Thirty-seven Distinguished Scholars, This Handbook Traces Modern Sport's Establishment And Development, Moving From Ancient Greek And Roman Combat Sports And Medieval Blood Sports To The Impact Of Industrialization And Urbanization In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries. It Charts The Global Diffusion Of Such Sports As Football, Baseball, Cricket, And Surfing And Explores Contentious Issues In Today's Society, Including The Practice Of Doping And The Economic Exploitation Of The Olympic Games. Introduction / Robert Edelman And Wayne Wilson -- Part I. Theorizing Sport History -- Sport And Social Theory / Douglas Hartmann -- Sport And Political Doctrine In A Post-ideological Age / John Hoberman -- The Somatic/linguistic Turn And Histories Of Exercise And Sport / Richard Gruneau -- Sport History And The Historical Profession / David Mcdonald -- Part Ii. Pre-modern Sport -- Ancient Greek And Roman Sport / Donald G. Kyle -- Medieval Sport / Angela Gleason -- Early Modern Sport / Mike Huggins -- Part Iii. The Birth And Establishment Of Modern Sport, 1820-1940 -- Industrialization And Sport / Wray Vamplew -- Sport And Urbanization / Michael T. Friedman And Jacob Bustad -- Communications And Journalism / John Carvalho -- Diffusion And Empire / Laurent Dubois -- Part Iv. Patterns Of Diffusion -- The Global Spread Of Football / Matthew Taylor -- Baseball's Global Diffusion / Rob Ruck -- Cricket: The Indianization Of An Imperial Game / Amit Gupta --^ Surfing: A Global Phenomenon / Douglas Booth -- Part V. Sites Of Sports Development -- Sport In China / Susan Brownell -- South Asian Sport / Boria Majumdar -- Diffusion And Transformation Of Western Sports In North Asia / Sayuri Guthrie-shimizu -- Sport In The Middle East / Alon K. Raab -- Sport In Africa / Pascal Charitas -- Sport In Russia And Eastern Europe / Mauricio Borrero -- Sport In West And North Europe / Christopher Young -- Sport In Southern Europe / Andrew Mcfarland -- Sport In Latin America / Brenda Elsey -- The Changing Field Of Sports History In Australasia / Gary Osmond -- Part Vi. New Globalizations And Their Discontents -- Contemporary Globalization And Recent Olympic Leadership / Stephen R. Wenn And Robert K. Barney -- Wada And Doping In World Sport / Thomas M. Hunt -- Part Vii. Reconsidering Establshed Categorires And Conemplating New Ones -- Class And Sport / Lewis H. Siegelbaum And Sasu Siegelbaum -- Gender Matters In Sport History / Patricia Vertinsky --^ Race And Sport / Daniel Widener -- Sport And National Identity / Dilwyn Porter -- History Of Sport And Religion In The United States And Britain / Amy Koehlinger -- Part Viii. Emerging Areas Of Interest -- The Visual Turn In Sport History / Mike O'mahony -- Sports And Sexuality / Erik N. Jensen. Edited By Robert Edelman And Wayne Wilson. Series From Book Jacket. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.