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The Journal of Sport History is published three times a year by the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes.

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“As manna from heaven”; that is one way of describing the arrival to the book stores of Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play edited by Jon Dart and Stephen Wagg (Palgrave Macmillan). Our reviewer is Russell Holden, and besides noting a couple of omissions, he is thoroughly pleased, nay, enthusiastic over this anthology and its critical stance in relation to sports.

Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation, edited by Russell Field (University of Toronto Press) is an homage, albeit in a very low-keyed, Canadian sort of way, to Bruce Kidd, athlete, activist and scholar. In his review for idrottsforum.org, Alan Bairner is very pleased with what he reads; however, he is unable to find in this book about struggle a discussion of gender and sexuality.

Mats Franzén Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning, Uppsala universitet  Russell Field & Bruce Kidd (red) Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968–2008: “To Remember is to Resist” 175 sidor, inb., ill. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2011 (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives) ISBN 978-0-415-48854-9 Året 1968 är ett år att återvända till, inte av nostalgiska skäl, men därför att det i flera avseenden står för avgörande förändringar,...