Robert Edelman is currently leading a multi-year research project on the global history of sport during the Cold War.
Wayne Wilson is Vice President for Education at LA84 Foundation, where he is responsible for the digital library, commissioned research projects, conference development and the coaching education program.
Introduction - Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson
Part I. THEORIZING SPORT HISTORY 1. Sport and Social Theory - Douglas Hartmann 2. Sport and Political Doctrine in a Post-Ideological Age - John Hoberman 3. The "Somatic/Linguistic Turn and Histories of Exercise and Sport - Richard Gruneau 4. Sport History and the Historical Profession - David McDonald
Part II. PRE-MODERN SPORT 5. Ancient Greek and Roman Sport - Donald G. Kyle 6. Medieval Sport - Angela Gleason 7. Early Modern Sport - Mike Huggins
Part III. THE BIRTH AND ESTABLISHMENT OF MODERN SPORT, 1820-1940 8. Industrialization and Sport - Wray Vamplew 9. Sport and Urbanization - Michael T. Friedman and Jacob Bustad 10. Communications and Journalism - John Carvalho 11. Diffusion and Empire - Laurent Dubois
Part IV. PATTERNS OF DIFFUSION 12. The Global Spread of Football - Matthew Taylor 13. Baseball's Global Diffusion - Rob Ruck 14. Cricket: The Indianization of an Imperial Game - Amit Gupta 15. Surfing: A Global Phenomenon - Douglas Booth
Part V. SITES OF SPORT DEVELOPMENT 16. Sport in China - Susan Brownell 17. South Asian Sport - Boria Majumdar 18. Diffusion and Transformation of Western Sports in North Asia - Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu 19. Sport in the Middle East - Alon K. Raab 20. Sport in Africa - Pascal Charitas 21. Sport in Russia and Eastern Europe - Mauricio Borrero 22. Sport in West and North Europe - Christopher Young 23. Sport in Southern Europe - Andrew McFarland 24. Sport in Latin America - Brenda Elsey 25. The Changing Field of Sports History in Australasia - Gary Osmond
Part VI. NEW GLOBALIZATIONS & THEIR DISCONTENTS 26. Contemporary Globalization and Recent Olympic Leadership - Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney 27. WADA and Doping in World Sport - Thomas M. Hunt
Part VII. RECONSIDERING ESTABLISHED CATEGORIES AND CONTEMPLATING NEW ONES 28. Class and Sport - Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Sasu Siegelbaum 29. Gender Matters in Sport History - Patricia Vertinsky 30. Race and Sport - Daniel Widener 31. Sport and National Identity - Dilwyn Porter 32. History of Sport and Religion in the United States and Britain - Amy Koehlinger
Part VIII. EMERGING AREAS OF INTEREST 33. The Visual Turn in Sport History - Mike O'Mahony 34. Sports and Sexuality - Erik N. Jensen
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