Murray G. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of From Sidelines to Centre Field: A History of Sports Coaching in Australia.
Foreword
Alun Munslow
Introduction: Sport History and Postmodernism
Murray G. Phillips
Part One: On Theory
1. Sport Historians: What Do We Do? How Do We Do It?
Douglas Booth
2. Sport History between the Modern and Postmodern
Brett Hutchins
3. A Linguistic Turn into Sport History
Michael Oriard
Part Two: On Practice
4. Partial Knowledge: Photographic Mystifications and Constructions of "The African Athlete"
John Bale
5. Anecdotal Evidence: Sport, the Newspaper Press, and History
Jeffrey Hill
6. Wasn't It Ironic? The Haxey Hood and the Great War
Catriona M. Parratt
7. Decentering "Race" and (Re)presenting "Black" Performance in Sport History: Basketball and Jazz in American Culture, 1920-1950
Steven W. Pope
Part Three: On the Future
8. Beyond Traditional Sports Historiography: Toward a Historical "Holograph"
Robert E. Rinehart
9. Contact with God, Body, and Soul: Sport History and the Radical Orthodoxy Project
Synthia Sydnor
10. Time Gentlemen Please: The Space and Place of Gender in Sport History
Patricia Vertinsky
Conclusion
Murray G. Phillips
List of Contributors
Index
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