History of Sport

Darlington FC fan Paul Hodgson pays tribute to 100 of the Quakers’ most memorable players from more than half a century of supporting the club.The ...

This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emer...

This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emer...

Super Bowl XLII was the greatest upset in NFL history. In A GIANT WIN, Coach Tom Coughlin recounts the strategies and people that made it possible....

This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms. It i...

In the second edition of this groundbreaking social history, M. Ann Hall begins with an important new chapter on Aboriginal women and early sport a...

On an early morning in 1983, after the worst loss of his career (109-66 against Virginia) and amid the cries of powerful athletics boosters calling...

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought th...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse se...

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars tha...

The history of China’s National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to...

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland’s history. Perhaps nowhere else has sport so infused the political, social and cultural developme...

Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast ...

Admit it: Even if you’re a die-hard baseball, sometimes an umpire's call can be baffling. And for newer fans, Major League Baseball's nuanced rules...

Waite “Schoolboy” Hoyt’s improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five-...

Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at e...

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues ...

This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football. From a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, the game was a...