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Sport in history : the making of modern sporting history / edited by Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan.
- Title
- Sport in history : the making of modern sporting history / edited by Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan.
- Publication
- St. Lucia [Australia] : University of Queensland Press ; Hemel Hempstead, Eng. : distributed by Prentice-Hall International, c1979.
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- Description
- xii, 368 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The place of sport in society and the social insights demonstrated by particular sporting moments and traditions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [365]-368.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Sport, war and society : Australia, 1914-18 / Michael McKernan -- The growth of American spectator sport : a technological perspective / Peter R. Shergold -- The willow tree and the laurel : Australian sport and Australian literature / Barry Andrews -- The sexual politics of sport : an Australian perspective / Helen King -- Politics only? : sport in the German Democratic Republic / Jurgen Tampke -- Sport as politics : the Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-1916 / W.F. Mandle -- Cricket's imperial crisis : the 1932-33 MCC Tour of Australia / Brian Stoddart -- Imperial cricket : test matches between Australia and England, 1877-1900 / K.S. Inglis -- The phenomenon of Indian cricket / Richard Cashman -- The emergence of modern American baseball, c. 1850-80 / Ian Tyrrell -- "Defensive Manchester" : a history of the Professional Footballers Association / Braham Dabscheck -- The emergence of "Aussie rules" / Ian Turner -- Heads in the sand : the 1956 Springbok Tour to New Zealand in perspective / M.N. Pearson -- The rugby war : the early history of rugby league in New South Wales, 1907-15 / Chris Cunneen -- The sport of kings and commoners : the commercialization of British horse-racing in the nineteenth century / Wray Vamplew -- The spectrum of Australian bicycle riding : 1890-1900 / Jim Fitzpatrick -- The Australian reaction to Jack Johnson, Black pugilist, 1907-9 / Richard Broome.
- ISBN
- 0702213551
- 070221356X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^79318998^
- OCLC
- 5833818
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library