List of illustrations | p. x |
Prologue | p. 1 |
An introduction to sport historiography | p. 5 |
Models | p. 7 |
Explanatory paradigms | p. 13 |
Clarifications | p. 20 |
Models | p. 23 |
Facts, objectivity and interpretation: truth in sport history | p. 25 |
Questioning the facts | p. 26 |
Validating historical truths | p. 31 |
Reconstructionism and questions of objectivity | p. 38 |
Conclusion | p. 40 |
Facts, concepts and structures: theory in sport history | p. 43 |
Reconstructionism: theory, agents, facts and concepts | p. 44 |
Constructionism: formal concepts, structures and theory | p. 48 |
Functionalism | p. 50 |
Structuralism | p. 53 |
The politics of theory | p. 58 |
Conclusion | p. 60 |
Narratives, non-narratives and fiction: presenting the sporting past | p. 62 |
Narrative in reconstructionist thought | p. 63 |
Non-narrative historical presentations | p. 67 |
Deconstructionism: the poetics of narrative | p. 69 |
History and fiction | p. 76 |
Conclusion | p. 80 |
Remnants of the past: sources, evidence and traces in sport history | p. 82 |
Official documents (and archives) | p. 84 |
Documents of mass communication | p. 88 |
Oral testimony (and memory) | p. 94 |
Visual materials: films and photographs | p. 98 |
Conclusion | p. 106 |
Explanatory paradigms | p. 107 |
Advocacy: debunking myths | p. 111 |
Setting the record straight | p. 112 |
Advocacy, partisanship and objectivity | p. 118 |
The contexts and functions of sporting myths | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 126 |
Comparison: expanding the evidence | p. 127 |
Metaphorical allusions | p. 130 |
Systematic comparisons | p. 133 |
Post-binary comparisons | p. 138 |
Conclusion | p. 142 |
Causation: explaining determinants in sport | p. 143 |
A contentious and problematic paradigm | p. 144 |
Narrative and causation | p. 147 |
The 'science' of causation | p. 150 |
Agents as causes | p. 153 |
Structures as causes | p. 157 |
Conclusion | p. 158 |
Social change: explaining transformations | p. 159 |
Systematic evolutionism: from traditional to modern sport | p. 162 |
Structuralism: from modern to late capitalist sport | p. 165 |
Relational structurism: making modern sporting culture | p. 173 |
Conclusion | p. 176 |
Context: interpreting the big picture | p. 178 |
The nature of context | p. 179 |
Problems of context | p. 183 |
A model for contextualisation | p. 189 |
Conclusion | p. 193 |
New culture: interpreting language and discourse | p. 194 |
Language and discourse: avenues of knowledge, truth and power | p. 195 |
Sport, cultural texts, narratives | p. 199 |
Epistemological issues | p. 202 |
Conclusion: returning to the present | p. 207 |
Epilogue | p. 210 |
Reflexivity | p. 211 |
Politics and the purpose of history | p. 217 |
Finale | p. 221 |
Notes | p. 222 |
Glossary | p. 301 |
Select bibliography | p. 307 |
Index | p. 335 |
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