American Sports

From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet
8. New Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-28198-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

American Sports is a comprehensive, analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Pamela Grundy and Benjamin Rader outline the complex relationships between sports and class, gender, race, religion, and region in the United States. Building on changes in the previous edition, which expanded the attention paid to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos, this edition adds numerous sidebars that examine subjects such as the Black Sox scandal, the worldwide influence of Jack Johnson, the significance of softball for lesbian athletes, and the influence of the point spread on sports gambling. Insightful, thorough, and highly readable, the new edition of American Sports remains the finest available introduction to the myriad ways in which sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of Americans, as well as the structure of American society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grundy, Pamela

Rader, Benjamin G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Sports in Early America

Chapter 2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports

Chapter 3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles

Chapter 4. The Rise of America's National Game

Chapter 5. Elite Sports

Chapter 6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports

Chapter 7. Broader Horizons

Chapter 8. Sports, Culture and Nation: 1900-1945

Chapter 9. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports

Chapter 10. The Age of Sports Heroes

Chapter 11. Baseball's Golden Age

Chapter 12. The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle

Chapter 13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports

Chapter 14. Globalizing Sports, Redefining Race

Chapter 15. The Setting of Organized Sports Since World War II

Chapter 16. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television

Chapter 17. College Sports in the Age of Television

Chapter 18. Racial Revolution

Chapter 19. Women's Liberation

Chapter 20. All Sports All the Time

Chapter 21. Sports in the Twenty-First Century

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela Grundy is an independent historian who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina (2001) and Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball (2005, with Susan Shackelford).

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Down on Mahans Creek: A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood (2017) and Baseball: A History of America’s Game (4th edition, 2018).