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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Duncan Stone (University of Huddersfield, UK) , John Hughson (University of Central Lancashire, UK) , Rob Ellis (University of Huddersfield, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9781138853638ISBN 10: 1138853631 Pages: 124 Publication Date: 10 February 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsNew Directions in Sport History offers a critical assessment of the field and provides advice on how sport historians can better relate to main stream historians, other academic audiences, and undergraduate students. Such prescriptions should be heeded; otherwise, the future of sport history is bleak and the state of the field moot. For as Johnes concludes, arguing over the relationship between subdisciplines or whether we have studied X or Y enough will be redundant because none of us will have jobs to do any research in the first place (p. 107). - Lindsay Parks Pieper, Sport in American History """New Directions in Sport History offers a critical assessment of the field and provides advice on how sport historians can better relate to main stream historians, other academic audiences, and undergraduate students. Such prescriptions should be heeded; otherwise, the future of sport history is bleak and the state of the field moot. For as Johnes concludes, arguing over the relationship between subdisciplines or whether we have studied X or Y enough will be redundant because none of us will have jobs to do any research in the first place (p. 107).""-Lindsay Parks Pieper, Sport in American History" New Directions in Sport History offers a critical assessment of the field and provides advice on how sport historians can better relate to main stream historians, other academic audiences, and undergraduate students. Such prescriptions should be heeded; otherwise, the future of sport history is bleak and the state of the field moot. For as Johnes concludes, arguing over the relationship between subdisciplines or whether we have studied X or Y enough will be redundant because none of us will have jobs to do any research in the first place (p. 107). -Lindsay Parks Pieper, Sport in American History Author InformationDuncan Stone recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His main research interests include amateurism, regionalism, the role of urban/suburbanisation upon social and cultural identities, the ‘cultural war’ over the definition of sporting practice, and the legitimate function and meaning of sporting activity. John Hughson is Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the Director of the International Football Institute, and works in research partnership with the National Football Museum, Manchester, UK. He is author of The Making of Sporting Cultures (Routledge, 2009) and The Uses of Sport (Routledge, 2005). Rob Ellis is Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published articles on the West Riding Pauper Asylum’s relationship with the Poor Law. More recently, he has worked with West Yorkshire Archive Service, the Thackery Medical Museum, Leeds City museums and South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust to bring the asylum story to a wider audience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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