MYTHS AND MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF SPORT by Stephen Wagg (Editor) ( 9780230320819 )

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MYTHS AND MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF SPORT

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ISBN 10:

0230320813

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9780230320819

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

30 November, 2011

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport takes as its starting point the need to go beyond 'newsreel' versions of the apparent turning points in sport history and to put them into a clear context. It explores a range of such watershed moments in a series of detailed and insightful studies. These moments include: the debate over the creation of particular sports; the beginnings of professional association football; the decline of amateur 'soccer'; the debate over violence in American football; the traditional throwing of the first pitch of an American baseball season by the President; the coming of male and female sport celebrity; the acknowledgement of a relationship between sport and politics; the arrival of drugs in sport; the clenched fist salute at the Olympic Games of 1968; the emergence of feminism in sport; the marriage of sport and television; the World Cup Final of 1966; and events seen mistakenly as turning points.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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