the international journal of the history of sport

The International Journal of the History of Sport

Book Review Register

Updated July 2021

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Book Review Register for The International Journal of the History of Sport The policy is to allocate no more than one book at a time per reviewer. This will improve the turnover time for reviews and potentially broaden the pool of reviewers.

Author(s)/Editor(s) Book Details Book Cover Reviewer Date Review Commissioned

Date Review Received

Anderson, Sheldon (ed.)

Twin Cities, University of Arkansas Press, 2020.

Reviewer required – contact [email protected]

Bartlett, Rhett Richmond FC, ‘The Tigers’: A Proud History of a Great Club – As Told by those Who Made it Happen, Melbourne: Slattery Media Group, 2019


Beck, Jason The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2016.


Bell, Roger In Apartheid's Shadow: Australian Race Politics and South Africa, 1945-1975, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2019.


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Belton, Brian The Thames Ironworks: A History of East London Industrial and Sporting Heritage, Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press UK, 2015.


Bender, Mike A New History of Yachting, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.


Berry, David A People’s History of Tennis, Pluto Press, 2020


Besnier, Niko, Calabro, Domenica Gisella, and Guinness, Daniel (eds)

Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age, London: Routledge, 2021.






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Bird, Murray Athenians and Red Invincibles: The

Origins of Queensland Football, Morningside: Sports Publishing, 2015.


Block, D. Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball, Combined Academic Publishers, University of Nebraska Press, 2019.


Brunson III, James, E.

The Early Image of Black Baseball: Race and Representation in the Popular Press Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2009.

Maclean, Malcolm September 2020

January 2021

Bolin, J.D. Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

McDermand, Robert January 2021



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Boyle, N. and Free, M.

Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cork University Press.

Byrne, Helen September 2020

January 2021

Campbell, P. Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of An African-Caribbean Football Club. Peter Lang: Bern.

James, Gary February 2019

Cashman, Richard and Adair, Daryl

History and Legacy of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games: An Independent Report, Sydney: Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee, 2010.


Chapman, David L. and Brown, Douglas

Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men Around the World, 1895-


January 2021


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1975, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013.

Chapman, David L. and Vertinsky, Patricia

Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.


January 2021

Clastres, P. and Azéma, Jean-Pierre (eds)

La politique du sport et de l'éducation physique en France pendant l'Occupation


Cleophas, F.J. Decolonising Themes in South African Sport History, African Sun Media, 2018.


Cox, Gary Cricketball, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.


Daffey, Paul Behind the Goals: The History of the Victorian Country Football League, Ballarat East: Ten Bag Press, 2017.


Dewey, D. The Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game


Domingos, Nuno Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017.

McSweeney, Mitch March 2018 June 2018






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Eddy, Dan

The Norm Smith Medallists: The Players Who Delivered on Football Grandest Stage, Melbourne: Slattery Media Group, 2018.

Edwards, H. The Revolt of the Black Athlete, University of Illinois, 2018.

Fuller, Andy April 2019

Eiben, J. and Stieglitz, O.

Visualities – Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources.


Feldmann, Thomas

Ankō Itosu - The Man. The Master. The Myth. Biography of a Legend, Dusseldorf: Lulu Press, 2021.




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Franks, Joel Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football, Rowman, 2018.

Lakisa, David

Frisbee, M. Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2018.


Forsyth, Janice Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport, Regina: University of Regina Press 2020.


Gemmell, Jon Cricket’s Changing Ethos: Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Ramamoorthy, Rakesh July 2018



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Hall, M. Ann Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century American, Combined Academic Publishers, 2018.

Hess, Rob 30 October 2018

Harms, John and Johnson, Mandy (eds)

The Eagles Almanac: Friends, Family, Flags, Fitzroy North: Malarkey Publications, 2018.


Heffernan, Conor History of Physical Culture in Ireland, 2021.


Herzog, Markwart and Brandle, Fabian (eds)

Europpaishcer Fussball in Zweiten Weltkrieg, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2015.

Jensen, Christian September 2017



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Horton, K. Outside the Limelight: Basketball in the Ivy League, Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Wan, Shu August 2020

Haxall, D. (ed.) Picturing the Beautiful Game, London: Bloomsbury, 2018.

MacLean, Malcolm January 2021

Holloway, Wilf Memories and Meetings: 65 Years of Sporting Experiences, Volumes 1 and 2, Bruederweg: Scribe Bishausen, 2018.


Holman, Andrew (ed.)

A Hotly Contested Affair: Hockey in Canada – The National Game in Documents, Toronto: Champlain Society, 2020.

Lorenz, Stacy 15 November 2020

Hutchinson, A. The Complete History of Cross-Country Running, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017.




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James, Gary Manchester City Women, 2020.

Roy Hay May 2021

James, Kieran Goodbye Leederville Oval: History of West Perth Cheer Squad, 1984-86, Paisley: Kieran James, 2017.


Kahn, R. The Roger Kahn Reader, Nebraska, UNP, 2018.


Kelly, W.W. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan


Kerr, R. et al. Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives [Available for review as an eBook].


Kirk, David and Vertinsky, Patricia

The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered


Kretchmar, Scott, Dyreson, Mark, Llewellyn, Matthew P. and Gleaves John

History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity, Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2017. [Available for review as an eBook].








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Lee, J. A History of Football in North and South Korea, c1910-2002.

Gutiérrez, Fernando December 2021

Lonsdale, J. A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power

Barrett, M.

Madrid, Juan Carlos

Una patria Possible: fútbol y nacionalismo en España

Gonzalez, A. April 2018

Martin, Francisco de Luis

Historia del deporte obrero en España (De los orígenes al final de la guerra civil), Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2019.

Rodriguez-Jiminez, Francisco

December 2019

McCarthy, Lana, Martin, Andy and Watson, Geoff

Will to Win: New Zealand Netball Greats on Team Culture and Leadership, Auckland: Massey University Press, 2020.

Oldfield, Samantha July 2020

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Mills, Richard The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia:

Sport, Nationalism and the State, IB Taurus, 2018.


Morgan W. Sport and Moral Conflict, Temple University Press.


Nielsen, Erik and Llewellyn, Matthew

The British World and the Five Rings, London: Routledge, 2016.


Nielsen, T.H. Two Studies in the History of Ancient Greek Athletics, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2018.


Nicholson, Raf Ladies and Lords: A History of Women's Cricket, Peter Lang, 2019.

Symons, Kasey October 2020

O’Mahony, M. Photography and Sport, Reaktion Books, 2018.

MacLean, Malcolm March 2019 July 2019

Huggins, Mike and O’Mahoney, Mike (eds)

The Visual in Sport, Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

MacLean, Malcolm September 2020

January 2021

Oates, Thomas Football and Manliness: An Unauthorised Feminist Account of the NFL, University of Illinois Press.


Park, Sun-Young Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Rathbone, Keith August 2020

Pearce, Scott Faded Yellow by the Winter, Richmond: Reading Sideways Press, 2019.








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Poulter, Gillian

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85, Vancouver: UBC Press. 2009.


January 2021

Ross, Robert B. The Great Baseball Revolt, Nebraska Wilkie, Jessie November 2018

Ryan, M.J. Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.

Martin, Sam 16 March 2017

Salazar, Ligaya (ed.)

Fashion V Sport London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2008.


January 2021

Salazar-Porzio, Margaret

¡Pleibol! En los barrios y las grandes ligas¡/Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues

Murtha, Ryan 25 November 2020

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Scaglia, Ilaria The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period, London: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Hofmann, Annette July 2020

Sharp, M. Ralph Doubell: Do Not Worry, it is Only Pain, Stokehill Press.


Skene, Patrick The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina – Pacific Revolution Pioneer, Auckland: Upstart Press, 2020.




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Socolow, M. Six Minutes in Berlin, University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Redihan, Erin E. August 2021

Sutton, Stan The Curse of the Indy 500. Reviewer required – contact [email protected]

Sweetman, Simon Coalminer’s Daughter: A Biography of Enid Bakewell, ACS.


Symons, Kasey and Wroby, Yvette (eds)

The Women’s Footy Almanac 2018: The AFLW Season One Game at a Time, Fitzroy North: Malarkey Publications, 2018.

Litchfield, Chelsea September 2020

Syson, Ian The Game that Never Happened: The Vanishing History of Soccer in





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Australia, Geelong: Sports and Editorial Services Australia, 2018.

Tamte, R. Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football, University of Illinois Press, 2018.


Tate, Stephen A History of the British Sporting Journalist c. 1850 - 1939: James Catton, Sports Reporter

Whimpress, Bernard 18 January 2021

Richard H. Thomas

Cricketing Lives: A Characterful History from Pitch to Page Reaktion


Torres, C. Olimpismo, University of Arkansas Press 2020.





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Vonnard, P., Sbetti, N. and Quin, G. (eds)

Beyond Boycotts: Sport During the Cold War in Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.

Gonzalez del Castillo, Javier

January 2020

Vonnard, P. Creating a United Europe of Football: The Formation of UEFA (1949-1961)

Porter, Dilwyn February 2021

Vere, B. Sport and Modernism in the Visual Arts in Europe, c.1909-1939, MUP 2018.

MacLean, Malcolm March 2019 July 2019

Veri, M. and Liberti, Rita

Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate, University of Arkansas Press, 2019.


Whimpress, Bernard

George Giffen: A Biography, Petersham: Walla Walla Press, 2020.

Watson, Geoffrey February 2021

Zurbo, Matt Heart & Soul: Footy Stories by those Who Played the Game, Melbourne:




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Slattery Media Group, 2018.