Sport in History, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2018)

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Engines at top speed! Using the adventures of a comic book motorsports hero as an approach to understanding recent French history
Sébastien Laffage-Cosnier, Noemi García-Arjona & Christian Vivier
Pages: 1-22
Published online: 25 Sep 2017
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Strength Peddlers: Eddie O’Callaghan and the selling of Irish strength
Conor Heffernan
Pages: 23-45
Published online: 20 Oct 2017
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Degenerate days: colonial sports tours and British manliness 1900–1910
Geoffrey Levett
Pages: 46-74
Published online: 15 Dec 2017
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George Walker and the ghost: the chess-player in urban and literary culture, 1840–51
John Sharples
Pages: 75-95
Published online: 01 Feb 2018
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The ‘reel’ Jesse Owens: visual rhetoric and the Berlin Olympics
Mike Milford
Pages: 96-117
Published online: 06 Feb 2018
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Book Reviews

Book Review
A future for the history of Ireland’s sporting past? An essay in review
David Toms
Pages: 118-123
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Edwin Smith: a life in Derbyshire cricket
Derek Barnard
Pages: 123-125
Published online: 15 Feb 2018
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The rebirth of professional soccer in America: the strange days of the United Soccer Association
Roger Domeneghetti
Pages: 125-127
Published online: 15 Feb 2018
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Cold war games: propaganda, the Olympics, and US foreign policy
Craig Esherick
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 23 Feb 2018
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The rise and fall of Olympic amateurism
Luke J. Harris
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 16 Feb 2018
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The temple of perfection: a history of the gym
Conor Heffernan
Pages: 132-134
Published online: 15 Feb 2018
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English national identity and football fan culture: who are ya?
Richard Holt
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 21 Feb 2018
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Alpe D’Huez: cycling’s greatest climb
Mark Hurst
Pages: 136-137
Published online: 16 Feb 2018
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The ethics of sport: what everyone needs to know
Anne Tjønndal
Pages: 137-139
Published online: 20 Feb 2018
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Richmond unchained – the biography of the world’s first black sporting superstar
Anne Tjønndal
Pages: 139-141
Published online: 20 Feb 2018
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Ashe vs Connors: Wimbledon 1975: Tennis that went beyond Centre Court
Allister Webb
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 07 Mar 2018
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