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The International Journal of the History of Sport

Table of Contents for The International Journal of the History of Sport. List of articles from both the latest and ahead of print issues.

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	Article	Author	Volume	Issue
2019 Winner	Snapshots of Modernity: Reading Football Photographs of the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay	Pedro Acuña	36	9-10
2018 Winner	Swimming Natationists, Mistresses, and Matrons: Familial Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain	Dave Day	35	6
2017 Winner	What’s Wrong with a Little Swinging? Indian Clubs as a Tool of Suppression and Rebellion in Post-Rebellion India	Conor Heffernan	34	7-8
2016 Winner	Between Survival Strategy and Bloody Violence: Boxing in Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps (1940–1945)	Doriane Gomet	33	10
2015 Winner	Climbing Beyond the Summits: Social and Global Aspects of Women’s Expeditions in the Himalayas	Martina Gugglberger	32	4
2014 Winner	Amazons, Vampires and Daredevils: Athletic Women in Silent Films	David Chapman	31	13
2013 Winner	Very Correct Adversaries’: The Cold War on Ice from 1947 to the Squaw Valley Olympics	John Soares	30	13
2012 Winner	Tokyo's Other Games: The Origins and Impact of the 1964 Paralympics	Dennis J. Frost	29	4
2011 Winner	Working-class Sports Clubs as Agents of Political Socialisation in Finland 1903-1923	Lauri Keskinen	28	6
2011 Winner	Sport in Syonan (Singapore) 1942-1945: Centralisation and Nipponisation	Lai Kuan Lim & Peter Horton	28	6
2010 Winner	The Physical is Political: Women's Suffrage, Pilgrim Hikes and the Public Sphere	Jaime Schultz	27	7
2009 Winner	Crossing the Line: Sport and the Limits of Civil Rights Protest	Simon Henderson	26	1
2008 Winner	It Wasn't Just Emily Davison! Sport, Suffrage and Society in Edwardian Britain	Joyce Kay	25	10
2007 Winner	Playing with the Rules: Influences on the Development of Regulation in Sport	Wray Vamplew	24	7
2007 Winner	Projecting the Visual: British Newsreels, Soccer and Popular Culture	Mike Huggins	24	1
2006 Winner	Acting Global, Thinking Local: ‘Liquid Imperialism’ and the Multiple Meanings of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games	Michael Dawson	23	1
2005 Winner	Mens Sana in Corpore Sano? Body and Mind in Ancient Greece	David Young	22	1
2004 Winner	The Globalization of Cricket: The Rise of the Non-West	Amit Gupta	21	2
2003 Winner	Globalizing the Nation-Making Process: Modern Sport in World History	Mark Dyreson	20	1
2002 Winner	Colonial Bodies, Colonial Sport: 'Martial' Punjabis, 'Effeminate' Bengalis and the Development of Indian Football	Paul Dimeo	19	1
2001 Winner	The Later Evolution of Modern Sport in Latin America: The North American Influence	Joseph L Arbena	18	3
2000 Winner	Football as Social Critique: Protest Movements, Rugby and History in Aotearoa, New Zealand	Malcolm MacLean	17	2-3
1999 Winner	Riefenstahl's Olympia: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Shaping of the Aryan Athletic Body	Graham McFee & Alan Tomlinson	16	2
1998 Winner	Fighting for Ireland, Playing for England? The Nationalist History of the Gaelic Athletic Association and the English Influence on Irish Sport	Mike Cronin	15	3
1997 Winner	Sport, War and Gender Images: the Australian Sportsmen's Battalions and the First World War	Murray G. Phillips	14	1
1996 Winner	‘No business of Ours'?: the Foreign Office and the Olympic games	Martin Polley	13	2
1995 Winner	Body culture and democratic nationalism: ‘popular gymnastics’ in nineteenth‐century Denmark	Henning Eichberg	12	2
1994 Winner	The Social Construction of the Gendered Body: Exercise and the Exercise of Power	Patricia Vertinsky	11	2
1993 Winner	The Female Body: Missionary and Reformer: The Reconceptualization of Femininity in Modern China	Fan Hong	10	2
1992 Winner	'The Year of Awakening’: Black Athletes, Racial Unrest and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968	David K. Wiggins	9	2
1991 Winner	Sport and the Redefinition of American Middle-Class Masculinity	Steven A. Riess	8	1
1990 Winner	The other ‘American Exceptionalism’: Why is there no Soccer in the United States?	Andrei S. Markovits	7	2
1989 Winner	‘The Warmth of Comradeship’: The First British Empire Games and Imperial Solidarity	Katharine Moore	6	2
1988 Winner	Football in the Mining Communities of East Northumberland, 1882-1914	Alan Metcalfe	5	3
1987 Winner	The Origins of the Modern Olympics: A New Version	David C. Young	4	3
1986 Winner	The Peculiar Economics of English Cricket Before 1914	Keith Sandiford & Wray Vamplew	3	3
1985 Winner	Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective	Roberta J. Park	2	1
1984 Winner	Oars and the Man’: Pleasure and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge	J.A. Mangan	1	3