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Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
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    Chapter 2 The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules Football
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    Chapter 3 From Evil to Expedient: The Legalization of Professionalism in English Football, 1884–85
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    Chapter 4 Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: The Quiet Death of Amateur Football in England
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    Chapter 5 Rough, Manly Sport and the American Way: Theodore Roosevelt and College Football, 1905
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    Chapter 6 Baseball, Invented Tradition, and Nationalistic Spirit
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    Chapter 7 ‘Her Dainty Strength’: Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the Coming of Female Sport Celebrity
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    Chapter 8 Before and After 1968: Reconsidering the Introduction of Drug Testing in the Olympic Games
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    Chapter 9 The ‘Revolt of the Black Athlete’: Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 Black Power Salute Reconsidered
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    Chapter 10 The D’Oliveira Affair: Cricket, ‘Race’ and Politics
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    Chapter 11 The Physical Activism of Billie Jean King
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    Chapter 12 John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions
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    Chapter 13 The ‘Packer Affair’ and the Early Marriage of Television and Sport
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    Chapter 14 All these Years of Hurt: Culture, Pedagogy and ‘1966’ as a Site of National Myths
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    Chapter 15 The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?
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Chapter title
Introduction: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
Chapter number 1
Book title
Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2011
DOI 10.1057/9780230320819_1
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-31693-9, 978-0-230-32081-9
Authors

Stephen Wagg, Wagg, Stephen