Download or read book The Field written by Douglas Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year The literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing. However, in comparison to most mainstream histories, sport history has rarely been called upon to question its foundations and account for the basis of its historical knowledge. In this book, Booth offers a rigorous assessment of sport history as an academic discipline, exploring the ways in which professional historians can gather materials, construct and examine evidence, and present their arguments about the sporting past. Part 1 examines theories of knowledge, while Part 2 goes on to scrutinize the uses of historical knowledge in popular and academic studies of sport history. With clear structure, examples, summary tables and a detailed glossary, The Field provides students, teachers and researchers with an unparalleled resource to tackle issues fundamental to the future of their subject, and sets the agenda for the debate to come.

Download or read book Understanding Sports Culture written by Tony Schirato and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In only 138 pages Schirato manages a broad sweep across sports history and culture... he brings the eye of a critical fan to his analysis of sport, treating it seriously as a social practice and as a social institution... A useful, provocative and non-dogmatic text that should be useful to undergraduate and graduate sport studies programmes." - Malcolm MacLean, Sport in History Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games such as folk football), through to its inception in the mid-nineteenth century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle. The narrative also focuses on and provides a detailed account of the gradual coming together of sport and the media. It explains how this relationship has accentuated sport′s status as one of the most important sites in contemporary culture, while simultaneously threatening its existence. As part of the Understanding Contemporary Culture series this book is aimed at a broad range of students from undergraduate to graduate level, who want to know more and be fully informed on sport, its relationship to the media, and its cultural dynamics.

Download or read book Sport and the Military written by Tony Mason and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three British services from 1880–1960. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book examines how organised sport developed in the Victorian army and navy, became the focus of criticism for Edwardian army reformers, and was officially adopted during the Great War to boost morale and esprit de corps. It shows how service sport adapted to the influx of professional sportsmen, especially footballers, during the Second World War and the National Service years.

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan written by Richard Hill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary containing over 1900 biographical notices of Sudanese and foreign persons who died before 1948.

Download or read book Sports Discourse written by Tony Schirato and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book both defines sports discourse, and provides an account of the different discourses that are utilized and come into play when the field of sport speaks. It shows how the sports communities have been addressed over time by various speakers, across various multimodal genres. Tony Schirato looks first at how discourse can be viewed as a form of work, something that produces and naturalizes meanings, and habituates the way we see the world. Grounding this exploration is an account of the development of the field of sport as a specific discursive regime, one that is both reflected and refracted by the dominant discourses and values of the time. These discourses have become naturalized and shape activities and materialities at local and global levels. The book ends with an examination of how new technologies and the Web are changing sports discourse, in some cases radically via online commentary, Twitter and user-generated content.

Download or read book Bulletin 1901 195 written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of a Sporting Nomad written by J. T. Studley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British in the Sudan 1898 1956 written by R. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Images of Empire written by M.W. Daly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history in general and of the Sudan, Africa's largest country and one of its most varied.

Download or read book Forbes written by Bertie Charles Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This business magazine covers domestic and international business topics. Special issues include Annual Report on American Industry, Forbes 500, Stock Bargains, and Special Report on Multinationals.

Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford Cambridge and the Great Public Schools Eton Harrow and Winchester written by Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Charles de Bourbon written by Christopher Hare and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan written by Harold E. Raugh and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army's campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899 were among the most dramatic and hard-fought in British military history. In 1882, the British sent an expeditionary force to Egypt to quell the Arabic Revolt and secure British control of the Suez Canal, its lifeline to India. The enigmatic British Major General Charles G. Gordon was sent to the Sudan in 1884 to study the possibility of evacuating Egyptian garrisons threatened by Muslim fanatics, the dervishes, in the Sudan. While the dervishes defeated the British forces on a number of occasions, the British eventually learned to combat the insurrection and ultimately, largely through superior technology and firepower, vanquished the insurgents in 1898. British Operations in Egypt and the Sudan: A Selected Bibliography enumerates and generally describes and annotates hundreds of contemporary, current, and hard-to-find books, journal articles, government documents, and personal papers on all aspects of British military operations in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899. Arranged chronologically and topically, chapters cover the various campaigns, focusing on specific battles, leading military personalities, and the contributions of imperial nations as well as supporting services of the British Army. This definitive volume is an indispensable reference for researching imperialism, colonial history, and British military operations, leadership, and tactics.