The AFL 1996 centenary celebrations

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 108, 1997, Pages 113-117

  Pascoe, Robert ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 61249589126     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314619708596030     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992.
2. Terence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm (eds), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983.
3. Stephen Fox, Big Leagues: Professional Baseball, Football, and Basketball in National Memory, William Morrow & Company, New York, 1994.
4. The classic work by Allen Guttman, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, Columbia Press, New York, 1978, remains required reading.
5. The standard work on soccer, by Bill Murray, Football: A History of the World Game, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1994, expertly describes the national loyalties associated with that game in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
6. Robert Pascoe, The Winter Game: The Complete History of Australian Football, Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1995.
7. See, for example, Garry Linnell, 'Passion is AFL's Pain', Sunday Age, 1 September 1996;
8. Richard Hinds, 'No Past, no Future', Sunday Age, 15 September 1996;
9. Joe Santamaria, 'Kicking the Heart out of the Game', Age, 18 September 1996;
10. Robert Pascoe, 'It's Time to Kick in the Right Direction', Age, 25 September 1996;
11. Ian Porter, 'The Lessons from Failed AFL Clubs Merger', Australian Financial Review, 27 September 1996.
12. John Ross (ed.), 100 Years of Australian Football, Penguin, Melbourne, 19
13. A tentative attempt to link the Laws of the Game with the cultural anthropology of Melbourne is offered by Pascoe, The Winter Game, pp. xiv-xvi