Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Holman, Andrew C., “The Canadian Hockey Player Problem: Cultural Reckoning and National Identities in American Collegiate Sport, 1947–80,” Canadian Historical Review (Toronto), 88 (Sept. 2007), 439–68.
Jallat, Denis, “Anglophobie, Américanophilie en France: l’Exemple de la Coupe Internationale de la Voile de Paris à la Fin du 19e Siècle” (Anglophobia, Americanophilia in France: The example of the International Cup of Sailing in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century), Sport History Review, 38 (Nov. 2007), 134–47. In French.
Kurth, Galen, “‘Little Buzz Buggies’: Midget Auto Racing in Oklahoma City, 1946–1964,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Summer 2007), 198–220.
Larsen, Travis, “Baseball Can Survive: How Semi-pro Baseball Thrived in Wichita during the 1930s and 1940s,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 40 (Spring–Summer 2007), 29–40.
Pope, Steven W., “Rethinking Sport, Empire, and American Exceptionalism,” Sport History Review, 38 (Nov. 2007), 92–120.
Smith, Alexis, “‘Satisfiers,’ Smokes, and Sports: The Unholy Marriage between Major League Baseball and Big Tobacco,” Sport History Review, 38 (Nov. 2007), 121–33.
Yelton, Jeffrey K., “The Pertle Springs Park: The Life and Death of a Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Resort,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (Oct. 2007), 10–24.
Barnes, Barbara A., “Global Extremes: Spectacles of Wilderness Adventure, Endless Frontiers, and American Dreams” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006). Order No. DA3241198.
Allen, E. John B., The Culture and Sport of Skiing: From Antiquity to World War II. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xvi, 384 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-600-2. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-55849-601-9.)
Cassidy, Rebecca, Horse People: Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington and Newmarket. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi, 208 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8703-1.)
Frei, Terry, Third Down and a War to Go. (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 2007. xxxii, 287 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-87020-384-8.)
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