The Genesis of the “International” Sports Federations before 1914

• Main Authors: Clastres, Patrick, Carpentier, Florence
• Other Authors: Clastres, Patrick (ed.), Carpentier, Florence (ed.)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Subjects: Fifa; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_D498ED971C6C

The genesis of the international sports federations that we know today remains an almost virgin historiographical field for the period before 1914. Apart from the monographs devoted to the two major federations, FIFA and the IAAF, this history is generally left to scholars or journalists in the cont...