Introduction / Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson -- Part I. Theorizing sport history -- Sport and social theory / Douglas Hartmann -- Sport and political doctrine in a post-ideological age / John Hoberman -- The "Somatic/linguistic turn" and histories of exercise and sport / Richard Gruneau -- Sport history and the historical profession / David McDonald -- Part II. Pre-modern sport -- Ancient Greek and Roman sport / Donald G. Kyle -- Medieval sport / Angela Gleason -- Early modern sport / Mike Huggins -- Part III. The birth and establishment of modern sport, 1820-1940 -- Industrialization and sport / Wray Vamplew -- Sport and urbanization / Michael T. Friedman and Jacob J. Bustad -- Communications and journalism / John Carvalho -- Diffusion and empire / Laurent Dubois -- Part IV. Patterns of diffusion -- The Global spread of football / Matthew Taylor -- Baseball's global diffusion / Rob Ruck -- Cricket: the Indianization of an imperial game / Amit Gupta -- Surfing: a global phenomenon / Douglas Booth -- Part V. Sites of sports development -- Sport in China / Susan Brownell -- South Asian sport / Boria Majumdar -- Diffusion and transformation of western sports in north Asia / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- Sport in the Middle East / Alon K. Raab -- Sport in Africa / Pascal Charitas -- Sport in Russia and Eastern Europe / Mauricio Borrero -- Sport in west and north Europe / Christopher Young -- Sport in southern Europe / Andrew McFarland -- Sport in Latin America / Brenda Elsey -- The changing field of sports history in Australasia / Gary Osmond -- Part VI. New globalizations and their discontents -- Contemporary globalization and recent Olympic leadership / Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney -- WADA and doping in world sport / Thomas M. Hunt -- Part VII. Reconsidering established categories and contemplating new ones -- Class and sport / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Sasu Siegelbaum -- Gender matters in sport history / Patricia Vertinsky -- Race and sport / Daniel Widener -- Sport and national identity / Dilwyn Porter -- History of sport and religion in the United States and Britain / Amy Koehlinger -- Part VIII. Emerging areas of interest -- The visual turn in sport history / Mike O'Mahony -- Sports and sexuality / Erik N. Jensen.