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Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
- 1 The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules Football
- 2 From Evil to Expedient: The Legalization of Professionalism in English Football, 1884ā85
- 3 Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: The Quiet Death of Amateur Football in England
- 4 Rough, Manly Sport and the American Way: Theodore Roosevelt and College Football, 1905
- 5 Baseball, Invented Tradition, and Nationalistic Spirit
- 6 āHer Dainty Strengthā: Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the Coming of Female Sport Celebrity
- 7 Before and After 1968: Reconsidering the Introduction of Drug Testing in the Olympic Games
- 8 The āRevolt of the Black Athleteā: Tommie Smith and John Carlosās 1968 Black Power Salute Reconsidered
- 9 The DāOliveira Affair: Cricket, āRaceā and Politics
- 10 The Physical Activism of Billie Jean King
- 11 John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions
- 12 The āPacker Affairā and the Early Marriage of Television and Sport
- 13 All these Years of Hurt: Culture, Pedagogy and ā1966ā as a Site of National Myths
- 14 The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?
- Index