Mapping Sport History and the History of Sport in Europe

THIS COLLECTION, ORGANIZED BY Christopher Young, Anke Hilbrenner, and Alan Tomlinson and stretching over two issues of the Journal of Sport History, provides important surveys of the state of the field in Europe. The editors recruited an impressive corps of scholars to survey scholarship of sport, including Andrew McFarland for Spain, Britta Lenz for Poland, Matthias Marschik for Austria, Niels Kayser Nielsen and John Bale for Norden (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland), Stefan Rohdewald for Yugoslavia (and successor states), Simon Martin for Italy, Stefan Zwicker for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (and the former Czechoslovakia), and Ekaterina Emeliantseva for Russia. These historiographies grew out of two collaborative endeavors to survey modern European sport, one centered in Britain and the other based in Germany. These scholarly collectives have already produced important work on Great Britain, France, and Germany, including an extensive German survey that appeared in a 2009 issue of German History and an Anglo-French historiography that appeared in a 2010 issue of the Journal of Sport History. In their introduction, Young, Hilbrenner, and Tomlinson declare that the absence of a usable historiography of European sport represents a “glaring hole” that threatens to suck the field into oblivion. These contributions, in tandem with the aforementioned works