You will use this outline to write my next order( research paper that due on final week)
The topic is international development of the Olympic Games history(Ancient to modern-day)
One of our textbook will be used as a source( still working on scanning it and will give to you ASAP) Other sources can from the internet or other books.
HIEU 127 The Global History of Modern Sports
This course looks at the phenomenon of sport in all its social, cultural, political and economic aspects. Our starting point will be the emergence of modern sport in nineteenth century Britain, but our approach will be global. Our primary concern will be with elite sport rather than participation or physical culture. Because our approach will be topical rather than strictly chronological, students should already have a good knowledge of world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as we will be attempting throughout the course to set sport in the context of the events of particular periods. Students who feel they lack the background may want to read Eric Hobsbawms works The Age of Empire and The Age of Extremes. Other works covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are also acceptable. Students who have taken Making of the Modern World will be sufficiently prepared.
Aside from the specifics of this topic, much attention will be paid to explaining what is called the historical method which inculcates particular skills for understanding the contemporary world. We will pay attention to when certain practices began and how they emerged into their form today. The Olympic Games are the most visible sporting practice that has invented a galaxy of traditions which have never been timeless. Understanding this process helps us comprehend how the world changed and continues to change. Additionally, we now live in a world of much too much information. The ability to discern good from bad information will be what separates the winners from the losers in our digital age. While this is far from a simple process, the study of history teaches us this crucial skill. This, more than the acquisition of specific knowledge, is the primary hoped for outcome of this course.
There will be a take home mid-term (33%) week 6, and a take-home final (67%).
Students will have the option of replacing the mid-term with a focused research paper of 10-15 pages. The topic must be worked out in consultation with the instructor and approved. It is crucial that this work will be yours and not something you have purchased. To get approval, you must submit a list of a few questions you hope to answer about the topic and a brief preliminary list of sources. This must be done by the time of the mid-term. No topic will be accepted after that date. The paper is due at the same time as the take-home final. Presenting work that is not your own as your own is a very serious violation of student conduct and can be treated harshly.
Books to be purchased at Bookstore or anywhere else
C. L. R. James Beyond a Boundary GV928.W47 J35 1993
Allen Guttmann The Olympics GV721.5 .G85 1992
Richard Holt Sport and the British GV605 .H65 1989
David Goldblatt The Ball is Round GV943.G65 2006
Susan Cahn Coming on Strong GV709 .C34 1995
Elliot Gorn and Warren Goldstein- A Brief History of American Sports GV 583. G673 2013
Available on free download at www.LA84Foundation.org
Robert Edelman Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR
Available online on Roger
Tony Collins – Sport in Capitalist Society
Simon Martin – Football and Fascism 173-217
Electronic Reserves
John Macaloon This Great Symbol, 43-60 GV721.2.C68 M32
Allen Guttmann Ritual to Record, ch. 1 GV706.5 . 1.G87
J. Huizinga Homo Ludens, ch. 1 CB151 .H813 1970;
Xu Quogi Olympic Dreams, ch. 3, 5, 7 GV 651 X78 2008
R. Guha – Corner of a foreign Field pp, 189-303 GV928.I4 G83 2014
READINGS
Week 0 Definitions and Requirements
Tony Collins Sport in Capitalist Society
Week I Theorizing Sport
Allen Guttmann From Ritual to Record, ch. 1 electronic
Johan Huizinga – Homo Ludens, ch. 1 electronic
Week II The Rise of Sport in the Modern World
Richard Holt, Sport and the British, chs. 2-4
Week III – The Peoples Game Soccer
David Goldblatt The Ball is Round, pp. 19-260
Week IV The Olympic Games
John MacAloon This Great Symbol pp. 43-60 electronic
Guttmann Olympics chs. 2-10
Week V American Exceptionalism?
Elliot Gorn and Warren Goldstein – A Brief History of American Sports – chs. 3-6
Week VI Sport and Fascism
Simon Martin Football and Fascism pp 173-217
Mid term
Week VII – Sport and Communism
Download from website [www.LA84foundation.org] Robert Edelman Serious Fun – chs. 2-6
Week VIII Gender
Susan Cahn Coming on Strong, chs. 5, 7-10.
Week IX Sport, Race and Colonialism Africa and the Diasporas
C.L.R. James Beyond a Boundary pp. 1-116
Week X Sport and Colonialism: China and India
Xu Guogi Olympic Dreams ch. 3, 5 and 7 electronic
Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field – pp. 189-303 electronic
