Sociological versus empiricist history: Some comments on tony collins’s ‘history, theory and the "civilizing process"

Sport in History

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 110-123

  Curry, Graham ^a,b   Dunning, Eric ^a   Sheard, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011137788     PISSN: 17460263     EISSN: 17460271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17460260600661315     Document Type: Article

References (20)

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2. Eric Dunning, Dominic Malcolm and Ivan Waddington, eds., Sport histories. Figurational studies of the development of modern sports (London: Routledge, 2004), p. 12.
3. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940).
4. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 292.
5. Dunning et al., Sport histories, pp. 31-52.
6. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 295.
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8. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 299.
9. Jennifer Macrory, Running with the ball: the birth of rugby football (London, Collins Willow, 1991), pp. 46-51.
10. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 291.
11. A. Gibson and W. Pickford, Association football and the men who made it, 4 vols (London: Caxton, 1906), Vol. I, p. 23.
12. J.C. Thring, letter to The Field: the Country Gentlemen’s Newspaper, 28 Dec. 1861.
13. J.C. Thring, letter to The Field, 26 Feb. 1863
14. Macrory, Running with the ball, p. 108.
15. W.C. Green, Memories of Eton and King’s (Eton College, 1905), p. 77.
16. Graham Curry, ‘Football: a study in diffusion’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Leicester, 2001).
17. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 304.
18. Norbert Elias, Über den Prozess der Zivilisation, 2 vols. (Basel: Haus zum Falken, 1939; single edition, revised English translation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000).
19. Collins, ‘History, theory and the "civilizing process"', p. 304.
20. E. Dunning and C. Rojek, eds., Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique (London: Macmillan, 1992), p. 262.