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There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history
literature published in recent years, making it increasingly
difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of
publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the
last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late
1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport
have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark
this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the
result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance
of sport history research within academe.
This international bibliography of books, articles, conference
proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for
the sports historian to know what is new.
There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history
literature published in recent years, making it increasingly
difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of
publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the
last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late
1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport
have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark
this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the
result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance
of sport history research within academe.
This international bibliography of books, articles, conference
proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for
the sports historian to know what is new.
The historian William Coxe (1748 1828) was also an Anglican priest,
and had travelled widely in Europe as tutor to various young
noblemen on the Grand Tour. (His Anecdotes of George Frederick
Handel, and John Christopher Smith is also reissued in the
Cambridge Library Collection.) This work originated on a visit to
St Petersburg, where Coxe had obtained sight of journals by Russian
explorers, and also found an anonymous German work on Russian
Arctic voyages between 1745 and 1770. Having checked its
authenticity with the Russian authorities, he translated it to form
part of this book, first published in 1780 and reissued here in its
revised third edition of 1787. He also provides various journals
and accounts of exploration in Siberia, Kamchatka and the American
Arctic, together with information on trade between Russia and
China. Readers will gain insights into a rarely considered aspect
of Arctic exploration and economic exploitation."
The author and clergyman William Coxe (1748-1828), noted for his
travel works, was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, German-born
John Christopher Smith (1712-95). First published in 1799, the
present work is a valuable source of first-hand information about
two men at the heart of eighteenth-century English music: George
Frideric Handel (1685-1759), whose inventive and sensitive melodic
genius and exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are
best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest, and Smith, a
composer of attractive and fashionable music, who settled in London
in 1720, took lessons with Handel and later supported the great
composer as his eyesight failed. Smith was also organist at the
Foundling Hospital until 1770. This publication, profits from which
were intended to support Smith's family, draws on the works of John
Hawkins and Charles Burney, and on anecdotes claimed to be 'derived
from unquestionable authority'.
The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman
George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the
controversial bishop John William Colenso (1814 83) in 1888.
Colenso was appointed the first Bishop of Natal in 1853, and in the
next few years he oversaw the completion of the cathedral in
Pietermaritzburg and the building of churches in Durban and
Richmond, established mission stations and learned Zulu. He was
heavily criticised for his tolerance of Zulu practices and for his
view that the Old Testament was not literally true. Eventually he
was excommunicated, though he retained a loyal following. Cox had
accompanied Colenso on his first visit to South Africa in 1853, and
remained a fervent supporter of the bishop's work, eventually being
nominated (unsuccessfully) as his successor. Volume 1 covers
Colenso's early years in Cornwall, his education at Cambridge, his
appointment as bishop, and the furore surrounding his theology.
The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman
George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the
controversial bishop John William Colenso (1814 83) in 1888.
Colenso was appointed the first Bishop of Natal in 1853, and in the
next few years he oversaw the completion of the cathedral in
Pietermaritzburg and the building of churches in Durban and
Richmond, established mission stations and learned Zulu. He was
heavily criticised for his tolerance of Zulu practices and for his
view that the Old Testament was not literally true. Eventually he
was excommunicated, though he retained a loyal following. Cox had
accompanied Colenso on his first visit to South Africa in 1853, and
remained a fervent supporter of the bishop's work, eventually being
nominated (unsuccessfully) as his successor. Volume 2 covers the
period from 1865 to Colenso's death, focusing on his support for
indigenous rights in the face of colonialist injustice.
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