Deconstructing Sport History

Murray G. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of From Sidelines to Centre Field: A History of Sports Coaching in Australia.

• Foreword Alun MunslowIntroduction: Sport History and Postmodernism Murray G. PhillipsPart One: On Theory 1. Sport Historians: What Do We Do? How Do We Do It? Douglas Booth 2. Sport History between the Modern and Postmodern Brett Hutchins3. A Linguistic Turn into Sport History Michael OriardPart Two: On Practice 4. Partial Knowledge: Photographic Mystifications and Constructions of "The African Athlete" John Bale5. Anecdotal Evidence: Sport, the Newspaper Press, and History Jeffrey Hill6. Wasn’t It Ironic? The Haxey Hood and the Great War Catriona M. Parratt 7. Decentering "Race" and (Re)presenting "Black" Performance in Sport History: Basketball and Jazz in American Culture, 1920-1950 Steven W. PopePart Three: On the Future 8. Beyond Traditional Sports Historiography: Toward a Historical "Holograph" Robert E. Rinehart9. Contact with God, Body, and Soul: Sport History and the Radical Orthodoxy Project Synthia Sydnor10. Time Gentlemen Please: The Space and Place of Gender in Sport History Patricia VertinskyConclusion Murray G. PhillipsList of Contributors Index SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations