New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

<p><em>New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe</em> offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history. </p><p>This anthology adds to the growing corpus of explorations of sport and leisure in late-modern European history from a variety of countries: France Spain Finland Hungary Bulgaria and Slovenia. With topics covering several different sports and ranging from sport during empire to mega-events and sport literature to women’s sport attire the insights provided by this new body of research demonstrate a greater understanding of the connections between sport and society in Europe throughout the long twentieth century. </p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>The International Journal of the History of Sport</i>.</p>