History of Sport

This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Princip...

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A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports ...

A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled their medieval forebears, bu...

Chaos, Controversy and THAT Kung-Fu Kick is the astonishing story of the most eventful season in the history of the Premier League.Not only was the...

Over Land and Sea is the story of West Ham United in Europe, exploring the rich history of the Hammers' European fixtures dating back more than a c...

Middlesbrough On This Day revisits the most magical and memorable moments from the club's glorious past, mixing in a maelstrom of anecdotes and cha...

In this book, the Belgian chess historian Henri Serruys traces back how Spassky became the first Soviet World Junior Chess Champion in Antwerp 1955...

Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, this book ex...

This is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. Covering well-known and rarely studied forms of fighting syste...

Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-o...

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Nev...

Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford argue that the category of ‘women’s sport’ is not the feminist win some would have you believe. Instead, the ...

‘Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read’ – Phil Liggett MBE'Entertaining... Carlton shows no sign of running out of amusing anecdotes... A wort...

This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup – more commonly known as the FA Cup – examining events from i...

Football in Wind and Rain provides educational but entertaining bite-size accounts of the history of British football and its people – an essentia...

Lawrence"Yogi" Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey to...

Since 2015, Fred Segal has chronicled "unprophetic" sports predictions on the internet. His Freezing Cold Takes social media pages feature quotes a...

A driving ambition linked Oakland and Kansas City in the 1960s. Each city sought the national attention and civic glory that came with being home t...

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understan...