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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Marking 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. Zusammenfassung 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 book was published as a special issue of Sport in History. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. ‘An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society’ Females on the Fairways, 1890-1914 2. Still Going After All These Years: Text, Truth and the Racing Calendar 3. The Proto-Globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American Interconnections 4. What Went Wrong with Counting? Thinking about Sport and Class in Britain and Ireland 5. Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today 6. The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War Two 7. Boxers United: Trade Unionism in British Boxing in the 1930s 8. Deeply Honoured: The Rise and Significance of the British Sporting Award, 1945-c.1970 9. ‘In a Yorkshire Like Way’: Cricket and the Construction of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire 10. ‘Egg and Chips with the Connellys’: Remembering 1966 11. Wray Vamplew: A Bibliography 1969-2008 ...
