The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the

Since the nineteenth century the USA has served as an international model for business, lifestyle and sporting success. Yet whilst the language of sport seems t

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary iss

When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even th