Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: Pre-match Instructions
Part One: Sports History: Firing Both Barrels
1. Know the Score: Understanding Sports History
2. Walk the Walk: Practising Sports History
Part Two: Sport Through the Ages
3. Sport before the Industrial Age
4. The Industrial Age (and Slightly Beyond)
5. The Past Century or So
Part Three: Sports
6. Fighting Talk: Combat Sports
7. The Killing Fields: Hunting, Shooting and Fishing
8. Horses for Courses: Equestrian Sports
9. Taking Speed: From Foot Power to Wheel Power
10. Out Clubbing: Bat and Ball Sports
11. Moving the Goalposts: The Football Codes
12. . . . Nor Any Drop to Drink: Water Sports
13. Slipping and Sliding: Winter Sports
14. Across the Pond: American Sports
Part Four: Sporting Life: Social and Cultural Aspects
15. Pushing the Mind and Body: Emotion, Pain and Violence
16. Open and Closed Doors: Discrimination in Sport
17. Playing Together: Sports Clubs and Associativity
Part Five: Mixing Oil and Water: Sport, Politics and Power
18. Political Football: Nationalism, Propaganda and Protest
19. Human Rights (and Wrongs)
20. Running or Ruining the Game: Rules and Rule-makers
Part Six: Show us the Money: The Business of Sport
21. Selling the Game: Sports Entrepreneurs and the Products They Marketed
22. Citius, Altius, Fortius et Multo Maiores: Mega Events
23. Playing for Pay: The Professional Athlete
Part Seven: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Public Image of Sport
25. How Green Was my Volley: Sport and the Environment
26. Selling Out the Game: Match-fixing and Drug-taking
Stoppage Time
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index.