Routledge Companion to Sports History

“Sport” as a generic subject is a fast‐developing academic discipline. Sports medicine and sports studies, along with recreation management and popular culture, are related subjects though “sport history” is something of a newcomer. A canter through the excellent bibliography to this Companion, however, shows no shortage of material, and this excludes the extensive bibliographies in the Notes appended to all the book's chapters. At random we find Fútbol argentino: pasión y gloria de nuestro deporte más popular (1990), The Development of West Indies Cricket, Vol. 1 The Age of Nationalism (1998), Rugby and the South African Nation (1998), Australian...