Week 2
Sport and History
Football
Week 2: 鈥楾he People鈥檚 Game鈥�
Class reading:
Questions:
How did football become 'the people's game'?
How did it impact on working class life?
What role did Scotland play in the emergence of football as a mass sport?
What does Taylor tell us about the global spread of football?
Important further reading
Eduardo Galeano, Football in Sun and Shadow, pp.18-29 (From 'The Ball' to 'Creole Football')
David Goldblatt, The People's Game, Ch.3 pp. 51-81
C. Bolsmann and D. Porter, English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amatuerism and the Global game (2018)
Matthew Brown, From Frontiers to Football (2014)
Andreas Campomar, Golazo!A History of Latin American Football (2014), chs. 1-3.
Collins, T. (2019). How Football Began. London: Routledge,
Graham Curry (2019) The making of modern soccer: a product of multiple
interdependencies, Soccer & Society, 20:7-8, 1014-1024, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2019.1680500
Richard Elliott and John Harris (eds) Football and migration: perspectives, places, players (2015)
Gary James and Day, 鈥楾he emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester 1840-84鈥�, Sport in History, 34, 1 (2014)
Gary James (2015) Manchester's Footballing Pioneers, 1863–1904: A Collective Biography, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32:9, 1143-1159, DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1055727
Christan Koller and Fabian Braendle, Goal! : a cultural and social history of modern football (2016), Ch.3. [ebook]
Charles P. Korr (1978) 鈥榃est Ham United Football Club and the Beginnings of Professional Football in East London, 1895-1914鈥�, Journal of Contemporary History, 13(2), p. 211. Available at: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.260114&site=eds-live
Markovits, A. S., & Hellerman, S. L. (2014). Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism Princeton: Princeton University Press. doi:
Tony Mason, Passion of the People?: Football in Latin America ((1995)
Joshua Nadel, Futbol: Why Soccer matters in Latin America (2014)
Matthew Taylor, 鈥楾he Global Spread of Football鈥�, in The Oxford Handbook of Sports History
Stephen Wagg, The Football World: A Contemporary social history [1984]
James Walvin, The People鈥檚 Game: A History of Football Revisited (2014)
Cricket
Topics to be discussed:
Amateur vs professional, role of class & gender, the 鈥榮pirit of cricket鈥�
Questions to think about:
How and why does cricket emerge as an organised sport in 18thC England?
What causes the key changes to the game in the 19thC?
Why does the demarkation between amateurs and professionals last so long?
What is the 'spirit of cricket'?
TV [via uni login]
Key Reading:
Anthony Bateman 'Cricket pastoral and Englishness' in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Reading
[1775] (Laws of Cricket on p211)
Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson, The Oxford Handbook of Sports History, Part One: Theorizing Sports History (2017)
Rob Light 'Cricket in the eighteenth century' in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
John Ford, Cricket a Social history (1972)
David Fraser, Cricket and the law: the man in the white is always right (1993)
C L R James, Cricket (1986)
C L R James, Beyond a Boundary (1963)
Mike Marqusse, Anyone but England: cricket, race and class (1998)
Keith Sandiford, Cricket and the Victorians (1994)