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Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

  • Stephen Wagg
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
    Stephen Wagg
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules Football
    Tony Collins
    Pages 8-31
  4. From Evil to Expedient: The Legalization of Professionalism in English Football, 1884–85
    Dave Russell
    Pages 32-56
  5. Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: The Quiet Death of Amateur Football in England
    Dilwyn Porter
    Pages 57-79
  6. Rough, Manly Sport and the American Way: Theodore Roosevelt and College Football, 1905
    Michael Oriard
    Pages 80-105
  7. Baseball, Invented Tradition, and Nationalistic Spirit
    Gerald R. Gems
    Pages 106-121
  8. ‘Her Dainty Strength’: Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the Coming of Female Sport Celebrity
    Stephen Wagg
    Pages 122-140
  9. Before and After 1968: Reconsidering the Introduction of Drug Testing in the Olympic Games
    Ian Ritchie
    Pages 141-158
  10. The ‘Revolt of the Black Athlete’: Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 Black Power Salute Reconsidered
    Maureen Margaret Smith
    Pages 159-184
  11. The D’Oliveira Affair: Cricket, ‘Race’ and Politics
    Rob Steen
    Pages 185-202
  12. The Physical Activism of Billie Jean King
    Jaime Schultz
    Pages 203-223
  13. John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions
    Elliott J. Gorn
    Pages 224-238
  14. The ‘Packer Affair’ and the Early Marriage of Television and Sport
    David L. Andrews, Andrew D. Grainger
    Pages 239-261
  15. All these Years of Hurt: Culture, Pedagogy and ‘1966’ as a Site of National Myths
    Michael L. Silk, Jessica Francombe
    Pages 262-286
  16. The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?
    Barbara Keys
    Pages 287-303
  17. Back Matter
    Pages 304-315
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About this book

Introduction

The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.

Keywords

Australia culture England history television Theodore Roosevelt Tradition

Editors and affiliations

  • Stephen Wagg
    • 1
  1. 1.Leeds Metropolitan UniversityUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230320819
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-31693-9
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-32081-9
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