Deconstructing sport history : a postmodern analysis / edited by Murray G. Phillips ; with a foreword by Alun Munslow. - viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations . - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Sport history and postmodernism / Murray G. Phillips -- Sport historians : what do we do? How do we do it? / Douglas Booth -- Sport history between the modern and postmodern / Brett Hutchins -- A linguistic turn into sport history / Michael Oriard -- Partial knowledge : photographic mystifications and constructions of "the African athlete" / John Bale -- Anecdotal evidence : sport, the newspaper press, and history / Jeffrey Hill -- Wasn't it ironic? The Haxey hood and the great war / Catriona M. Parratt -- Decentering "race" and (re)presenting "Black" performance in sport history : basketball and jazz in American culture, 1920-1950 / S.W. Pope -- Beyond traditional sports historiography : toward a historical "holograph" / Robert E. Rinehart -- Contact with God, body, and soul : sport history and the radical orthodoxy project / Synthia Sydnor -- Time gentlemen please : the space and place of gender in sport history / Patricia Vertinsky.

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Sports--Sociological aspects
Sports--History.

GV706.5 / .D395 2006

306.483