A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry (The Cultural Histories Series)

From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human culture. A Cultural History of Sport presents the first extensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: The Purpose of Sport; Sporting Time and Sporting Space; Products, Training and Technology; Rules and Order; Conflict and Accommodation; Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation; Minds, Bodies and Identities; Representation. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (800 BCE to 600 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (600 to 1450); 3 - Renaissance (1450 to 1650); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1650 to 1800); 5 - Age of Industry (1800 to 1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920 to present). The page extent for the pack is approximately 1776pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. A Cultural History of Sport is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS SERIES PREFACE Introduction SPORTING HEROES: AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE SPORT AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE SPORT AND CULTURAL HISTORY SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF SPORT GENDER CONCLUSION CHAPTER ONE The Purpose of Sport LEISURE AS RESPITE SPORT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION SPORT IN THE SERVICE OF SCIENCE SPORT AND GENDER DESIGNATION SPORT AND THE FEMALE QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE SPORT AS A PROFESSION SPORT AS SOCIAL CONTROL SPORT AND THE PROMOTION OF NATIONALISM SPORT AND RELIGIOUS PROSELYTISM COMMERCIALIZATION CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWO Sporting Time andSporting Space SPORTS AND GAMES IN THE “SPARE-TIME SPECTRUM SOCIAL BORDERS AND BONDS OUTDOOR SPORTS SPORTS, GAMES, AND PHYSICAL EXERCISES IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FOR THE NATION STATE PATTERNS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION GYMNASTICS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT SCHOOLS OLYMPIC PERSPECTIVES CONCLUSION CHAPTER THREE Products, Training, and Technology INTRODUCTION COMMODIFICATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANUFACTURING AND RETAILING INVENTION AND INNOVATION FACILITIES—PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PROVISION PLAYING DIFFERENTLY CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS PEDAGOGY, TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOUR Rules and Order RESPECTABILITY: A FINAL DESTINATION? FALSE STARTS WHO WRITES THE STORY? KIT GENDERING THE RULES THE FRONTIER RULES FOR A NEW NATION CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER FIVE Conflict and Accommodation MODERNITY’S CULTURES AND MODERN SPORT SPORTING (CAPITALIST) MODERNITY CONTESTED PURITANISM COLONIALISM, SPORT AND BODY CULTURES CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIX Inclusion, Exclusion, and Segregation THE COERCIVE SHAPING OF INCLUSION EXCLUSION AND SEGREGATION RACE AND ETHNICITY GENDER CONCLUSION CHAPTER SEVEN Minds, Bodies, and Identities EMOTION, EROTICISM AND PAIN ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS CREATING IDENTITIES CHAPTER EIGHT Representation TRADITIONAL GAMES HUNTING AND ANGLING EQUESTRIAN SPORTS BOXERS, WRESTLERS, FENCERS RUNNING AND SWIMMING LAWN SPORTS ON THE WATER TEAM SPORTS WINTER SPORTS TECHNOLOGICAL SPORTS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated, and new team games - such as baseball, basketball and the various forms of football - were created, codified, commercialized, and professionalized. Yet this was also an age of cultural and political tensions, when issues around the role of women, social class, ethnicity and race, imperial relationships, nation-building, and amateur and professional approaches were all shaping sport. At the same time, increasing urbanization, population, real wages and leisure time drove demand for sport ever higher, and the institutionalization and regulation of sport accelerated. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation. Mike Huggins is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cumbria, UK. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland