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BOOK REVIEW REGISTER July 2019 2 Table of Contents 1. Book Review Register for Sporting Traditions 3 2. Review Guidelines for Sporting Traditions 5 3. Sample Book Reviews for Sporting Traditions 7 5. Reviews of Australian Society for Sports History Publications 12 3 Book Review Register for Sporting Traditions The following is a register of books for which reviews are needed. The general policy is to allocate no more than one book at a time per reviewer. This will hopefully improve the turnover time for reviews and potentially broaden the pool of reviewers. Regular updates of the Register will be posted on the Society’s website at http://www.sporthistory.org/. The Book Review Register is arranged in alphabetical order by author surname. Further information provides a link to more details about the book that may assist you in your selection. Link to Additional Author (s) Title Information Adogame, Afe, Watson, N. J. and Parker, Andrew Global Perspectives on Sports and (eds) Christianity, Routledge, London, 2018 Further information Cazaly: The Legend, Slattery Media Allen, Robert Group, Melbourne, 2017 Further information Anderson, Jennifer & Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game, Further information Ellison, Jenny (eds) University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 2018 A Life in Sport and Other Things: A Memoir, Manchester Metropolitan University Centre for Research into Bale, John Coaching, Crewe, Cheshire, 2013. The Northies’ Saga: Fifty Years of Club Cricket with North Canberra Barrow, Graeme Gungahlin, 2013. Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Baum, Tom and Boundary, Channel View Publications, Butler, Richard (eds) Bristol, 2014. $24.95 Further information Cold War Games, Echo Publishing, Blutstein, Harry Richmond, 2017. Further information It’s a Jolly Good Story All the Same: The Story of Lane Cove Rugby, Theo Clark, Theo (Director) Clark Media, Sydney, 2012. Further information Sport, War and Society in Australia and Crotty, Martin and Hess, New Zealand, Routledge, London, Rob 2016. Further information Behind the Goals: The History of the Victorian Country Football League, Ballarat East: Ten Bag Press, 2017. Daffey, Paul Further information Larrikins & Legends: The Untold Story of Carlton’s Greatest Era, Slattery Eddy, Dan Media Group, Melbourne, 2017. Further information 4 Sport: A Critical Sociology, Second Further information Edition, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2016. Giulianotti, Richard Paperback The Grads are Playing Tonight! The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club, University Hall, M. Ann of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2011. Further information ‘Mountain of Destiny’: Nanga Parbat and its Path into the German Imagination, Camden House, HÖbusch, Harald Rochester, NY, 2016. Further information Sport and Society: A Student Introduction, Second Edition, London: Houlihan, Barrie Sage, 2008. Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century, Boydell & Huggins, Mike Brewer, London, 2018. Further information Goodbye Leederville Oval: History of West Perth Cheer Squad, 1984-86, James, Kieran Kieran James, Paisley, 2017. Further information Near Death on the Sub-Continent: The Gavin Stevens Story, The Cricket Publishing Company, West Pennant Jenkins, David Hills, 2009. Further information Jones, Ian, Brown, Lorraine and Holloway, Qualitative Research in Sport and Immy Physical Activity, Sage, London, 2013. Sport and Technology: An Actor- Network Theory Perspective, Further information Manchester University Press, Kerr, Roslyn Manchester, 2016. Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective, Koch, Natalie (ed.) Routledge, London, 2017 Further information Kretchmar, Scott, Dyreson, Mark Llewellyn, History and Philosophy of Sport and Matthew P. and Gleaves, Physical Activity, Human Kinetics, John Champaign, 2017. Further information Dope Hunters: The Influence of Scientists on the Global Fight Against Doping in Sport, 1967-1992, Common Krieger, Jorg Ground Publishing, Illinois, 2016. Further information Playing While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the Field, Seattle: Further information Leonard, D. J. University of Washington Press, 2017. 5 Study Skills for Sports Studies, Magdalinski, Tara Routledge, London, 2013. Further information Will to Win, Melbourne: Hybrid Miller, Don Publishers, 2014. Further information The World (Game) According to Les Murray, Hardie Grant Books, Murray, Les Melbourne, 2014. Further information Pep: The story of Cec pepper, the best cricketer never to represent Australia, Ken Piesse Football & Cricket Books, Further Piesse, K Melbourne, 2018. information Examining Sport Histories: Power, Paradigms, and Reflexivity, Fitness Pringle, Richard and Information Technology, Morgantown, Phillips, Murray (eds) 2013. Further information Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture and the Cold War, University of Arkansas Press, Rider, T., Witherspoon, K Fayetteville, 2018 Further information Soccer Under the Swastika, Rowman Simpson, K. E. and Littlefield, Lanham, 2016. Further information An Act of Bastardry: Rugby League Axes its First Club – Glebe District Rugby League Football Club 1908 to 1929, Walla Walla Press, Petersham, Solling, Max 2014. Further information The Big Leagues go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951- 1989, University of Illinois Press, Surdam, D. G. Chicago, 2015. US$65.00 Further information Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Sussman, Jeffrey Heroes of Boxing Further information The Game that Never Happened: The Vanishing history of Soccer in Australia, Sports and Editiorial Services Syson, I Australia, Melbourne, 2018 Further information Sport et Loisirs, une histoire des origines à nos jours, Paris: Gallimard, Turcot, Laurent 2016. Zhouxiang, Lu and Hong, Sport and Nationalism in China, Fan Routledge, London, 2014. Further information 6 Review Guidelines for Sporting Traditions Preamble: Books for review are allocated at the discretion of the Reviews Editor. Unsolicited reviews are not accepted unless prior arrangements have been made with the Reviews Editor. The following guidelines should be of assistance. The target length for reviews is 600-1000 words per title. Only exceed the upper limit if there are good reasons for this, and let me know in advance if this is the case. Word limits for Review Essays, where several works are reviewed at the same time, should be negotiated in advance. Deadlines are flexible, but it is good for the journal and the authors concerned to see reviews in print as soon as possible after the release of books. Nominal deadlines are as follows: May issue – 01 April; November issue – 01 October. However, reviews are welcome to be submitted at any time. Please send the review as a Word email attachment to: Dr Xavier Fowler at [email protected]. I will acknowledge the receipt of your review in a return email. Reviews that are not in transferable electronic format will not be accepted. All reviews are subject to editing for length, clarity and style. The manuscript should be double-spaced and left-aligned. Single, not double, spaces should follow full stops. Single inverted commas should be used for quotations. Use details on the imprint page of the book to provide the following information at the head of the review: Author, title (in italics), publisher, place of publication, year of publication, numbers of Roman and Arabic pages, paperback or hardback, price (if known) in Australian dollars (with British pounds or US dollars when appropriate). ISBN numbers are NOT required. Please use punctuation and spacing as set out in the example below. Lionel Frost, Immortals: Football People and the Evolution of Australian Rules, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane, 2005, pp. Xv + 312, pb, $34.95. Provide the following information at the foot of the review, as per the example: your name and institutional affiliation or location. Mary Smith University of … References to pages of the work under review should be made in the text, thus: (p. 22). Neither reviewers nor the reviews editor receive payment for their efforts. However, reviewers are entitled to receive a copy of the book if the item has been supplied by the publisher. Some sample reviews, already published, are appended below. Thank you in anticipation of your review. Publishers – contact Dr Xavier Fowler [email protected] if you are interested in having your publication reviewed in Sporting Traditions. 7 4. Sample Book Reviews for Sporting Traditions Bob Petersen, Gentleman Bruiser: A Life of the Boxer Peter Jackson, 1860-1901, Croydon Publishing Company, Sydney, 2005, pp. xii + 365, pb, $50.00. For many years Australians have had a great affection for Peter Jackson, which at first glance is a curious thing as he was a black outsider. Jackson was not a native son, being born near Christiansted on the Danish controlled island of St Croix. He was of African descent, his forbears being part of the great Atlantic slave trade to the Caribbean. Jackson found himself in Australia in 1879, which was then beginning to privilege whiteness. He was nineteen and had been a sailor on a Danish trader since the age of twelve. After working on river boats in New South Wales Jackson began boxing, improving his skills with the help of an instruction manual and then from 1880 the mentoring of the Sydney boxer-trainer Larry Foley. In 1888 and at the advanced fighting age of 28 years, he tried his luck in California and other parts of the United States (US) over the next decade. Jackson fought and defeated the world’s best heavyweights of the early 1890s, drew