Sport as History
Essays in Honour of Wray Vamplew
Published to mark the career of one of sports history's pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history's leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift marks the retirement of Professor Wray Vamplew - an internationally-renowned leader in the field of sports history. His 1976 book The Turf was one of the very first academic histories of sport and he has been a prolific writer, scholar and teacher for almost forty years. No one has played such an important role in the field of sports history across North A…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-98702-4
- EAN: 9781317987024
- Produktnummer: 33217688
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'206 KB
Über den Autor
Tony Collins is Professor of the Social History of Sport at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. As well as writing a trilogy on the history of rugby - Rugby's Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union - he has also worked with Wray Vamplew on the Encyclopedia of Traditional Rural Sports (all published by Routledge) and Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol.
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