Tag: Christian Koller

This special issue of Soccer & Society is edited by independent historian Conor Curran and takes a pan-European approach in examining the game’s role within schools in seven European nations from the late 1800s until the early twenty-first century, including the homes to the ‘Big Five’ European leagues – England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Introduction: soccer’s growth and development in schools in Europe: a history by Conor Curran (open access).

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies by Lina von Petersdorff & Jörg Krieger (open access).

STADION serves as scholarly platform for well-known historians, and is aimed both at experts and at all those who strive for a deeper and more differ entiated understanding of sport, play, physical education and physical culture from an historical perspective. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Getting on the Good Foot and Showing True Colors: Football, Diversity, and Nation-Building in France and Germany, 1950–2018 by Pierre Weiss, Jean Christophe Meyer.

In the anthology European Football During the Second World War: Training and Entertainment, Ideology and Propaganda by Markwart Herzog and Fabian Brändle, an international team of authors examines the development of football during the Second World War in a dozen European states. Our reviewer is Alon K. Raab, who finds the book comprehensive and important.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.