It’s more than just a game. A forerunner in the field of sports studies, the press has for years recognized sport’s ability to shape people’s lives as well as to elucidate the nuances of race, gender, and class identity. In recent decades we’ve built a deep list of monographs and collections that connect the work of researchers in the humanities and social sciences with professional academics and general readers alike.
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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.
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...
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui has reviewed Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Journal of Sport History: “It is not unusual for historians and social scientists to present the history of Latin America and the Caribbean...
