Sport, Culture, and Society is a series from the University of Arkansas Press that published monographs and collections for academics and general readers in the humanities and social sciences. Its focus was the role of sport in the development of community and the forging of individual, local, regional, and national identities.
Sport is an extraordinarily important phenomenon that pervades the lives of many people and has enormous impact on society in an assortment of different ways. At its most fundamental level, sport has the power to bring people great joy and satisfy their competitive urges while at once allowing them to form bonds and a sense of community with others from diverse backgrounds and interests and various walks of life. Sport also makes clear, especially at the highest levels of competition, the lengths that people will go to achieve victory as well as how closely connected it is to business, education, politics, economics, religion, law, family, law, family, and other societal institutions. Sport is, moreover, partly about identity development and how individuals and groups, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic class, have sought to elevate their status and realize material success and social mobility.
Sport, Culture, and Society seeks to promote a greater understanding of the aforementioned issues and many others. Recognizing sport’s powerful influence and ability to change people’s lives in significant and important ways, the series focuses on topics ranging from urbanization and community development to biography and intercollegiate athletics. It includes both monographs and anthologies that are characterized by excellent scholarship, accessible to a wide audience, and interesting and thoughtful in design and interpretations. Singular features of the series are authors and editors representing a variety of disciplinary areas and who adopt different methodological approaches. The series also includes works by individuals at various stages of their careers, both sport studies scholars of outstanding talent just beginning to make their mark on the field and more experienced scholars of sport with established reputations.
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming reissue of Jay Jennings's celebrated Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City. In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High...
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders has won the 2022 Book Award from the North American Society for Sport History in the monograph category. In this work of sporting and social history, we have a biography of...
David Lunt, author of The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes has been interviewed by Reyes Bertolin on the New Books Network. Click here to listen. The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious...
The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes by David Lunt, is now available. The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of In the Inner Sanctum: Behind the Scenes at Big Fights by Thomas Hauser. When Thomas Hauser was selected for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019, his...
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, has been reviewed in the Journal of Sport History. “Seattle Sports, edited by Terry Anne Scott, is a welcome addition to the Sports, Culture, and Society series edited by...
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders has been included in Thomas Hauser's 2021 Holiday Books List. Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing....
Thomas Hauser's latest collection of boxing essays, Broken Dreams, has been reviewed by Arne Lange at The Sweet Science. “Two hundred years from today, if mankind still exists, folks interested in the goings-on in the world of boxing during the first decades of the...
Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons, edited by Sheldon Anderson, was reviewed by Peter Lund in the Spring 2021 Issue of the Journal of Sport History. “In Twin Cities Sports, editor Sheldon Anderson has collected a unique and thorough set of articles that provide...
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes by David Lunt. The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic...
