A companion to American sport history
edited by Steven A. Riess
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- E-Book
- Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2014]
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- Summary:
- Abstract: A Companion to American Sport History represents the first comprehensive analysis of classic and contemporary scholarship relating to the burgeoning field of American sport history. Featuring contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history, essays begin by tracing the evolution of sports in America from colonial societies through to the era of sport in the United States today.
- Table of Contents:
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- References
- Part I: Major chronological eras of sport history: Chapter 1. The emergence of sport; Chapter 2. The gilded age and the progressive era, 1865-1920; Chapter 3. The interwar and post-World War II eras, 1920-1960; Chapter 4. Sport since the 1960s
- Part II: Historical processes and sport: Chapter 5. Scientific habits of mind, technological revolutions, and American sport; Chapter 6. Urbanization and American sport
- Part III: Major team sports: Chapter 7. Baseball before 1920; Chapter 8. Baseball since 1920; Chapter 9. Reconciling the consequences of modernity; Chapter 10. Professional football; Chapter 11. Basketball
- Part IV: Major individual sports: Chapter 12. Boxing; Chapter 13. Golf and tennis; Chapter 14. American motor sport; Chapter 15. Historians, track stars, and amateurism
- Part V: Sport, government, and the global society: Chapter 16. The United States and international sport; Chapter 17. The United States in the modern Olympic movement
- Part VI: Sport and social history: Chapter 18. Historians take on ethnicity, race, and sport; Chapter 19. The African American athlete; Chapter 20. Class and sport; Chapter 21. Manhood or masculinity; Chapter 22. Women in American sport history
- Part VII: Sport and capitalism: Chapter 23. Explaining exceptionalism; Chapter 24. Sport and the media; Chapter 25. Stadiums, arenas, and audiences
- Part VIII: Sport and culture: Chapter 26. Sport and American religion; Chapter 27. Not always "natural"; Chapter 28. Sports biographies.
- Contributors:
- Riess, Steven A. , editor
- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (40 entries).
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- GV853 .C65 2014eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781786845986 (electronic version)
9780470656129 (cloth) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2013045088 [Invalid]
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1017607868
- Other Control Numbers:
- gtp00567409 (source: CaBNVSL)
wileysport2014 (source: Credo)
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