Books written by Rob Hess

  • Australian Rules Football During the First World War
    Australian Rules Football During the First World War

    This chapter concludes, not only did the game survive, it grew with the advent of women's football and its lustre arguably shone brighter through the deeds of soldier footballers. The arguments about playing football in wartime revealed ...

  • More Than a Game: The Real Story of Australian Rules Football
    More Than a Game: The Real Story of Australian Rules Football

    A team of football historians and enthusiasts have pooled its resources and intellectual energies to write this oppositional and unauthorised history. Provides a detailed account of the development of Australian...

  • Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim
    Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

    Australia and the Colombo Plan: 1949–1957. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth of Australia, 1957. Maguire, Joseph. Global Sport: Identities, Societies, Civilizations. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999. Megarrity, Lyndon.

  • The Athletes’ Voice in History
    The Athletes’ Voice in History

    Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina OustinovaStjepanovic, and Jonathan Spencer, eds., The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (London: UCL Press, 2020), 1–2. 7. Jeffrey W. Kassing, and Robyn ...

  • Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives
    Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives

    ... International Sports Law Review 2 ( 2012 ) , 14 ; the biggest scandal penalized in Czech football involved eight club ... The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics ( Basingtoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2018 ) , 223-244 ...

  • Play On!: The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football

    Finally a book whose time has come: a comprehensive and authoritative centenary history of women's Australian Rules football by the country's two foremost experts in the women's game.

  • Sport Development and Olympic Studies: Past, Present, and Future
    Sport Development and Olympic Studies: Past, Present, and Future

    ... Olympic Facility Legacy : An Analysis of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956 ' ( Master of Arts diss . , Munich Business School , 2017 ) . 21. Ian Jobling , ' Strained Beginnings and Friendly Farewells : The Games of the XVI Olympiad ...

  • Australia's Game: The History of Australian Football
    Australia's Game: The History of Australian Football

    Shortlisted for the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) Biennial Book Prize Unlike every other sport that has captured the nation’s interest, Australian football is not a copy, a clone, or a hand-me-down of European culture.