The Routledge history of American sport / edited by Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins and Gerald R. Gems.

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English
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New York : Routledge, 2017.
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xviii, 466 pages ; 26 cm.

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    The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through innovative themes and topics such as the business of sport, material culture and sport, the political uses of sport, and gender and sport, this text offers an interdisciplinary analysis of American leisure. Rather than moving chronologically through American history or considering the historical origins of each sport, these topics are dealt with organically within thematic chapters, emphasizing the influence of sport on American society.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins, and Gerald R. Gems
    • pt. I. Introduction to American sport history: perspectives and prospects
    • Theory and method in American sport history / John Soares
    • New directions and future considerations in American sport history / Jaime Schultz
    • The Wild West of pedagogy: thoughts on teaching American sport history / Ryan Swanson
    • pt. II. Sport and education
    • Progressive-era sport, education, and reform / Brian M. Ingrassia
    • Intercollegiate sports / Ronald A. Smith
    • High school sports / Robert Pruter
    • Youth sports / Dennis Gildea
    • pt. III. Race, ethnicity, American sport, and identity
    • Native American sports / John D. Bloom
    • African Americans and sports / Charles H. Martin
    • Latinos and sport / Adrian Burgos, Jr.
    • Irish Americans and sport / Ralph C. Wilcox
    • German Americans and sport / Annette R. Hofmann
    • Sport and Italian American identity / Gerald R. Gems
    • Jews and American sports / Steven A. Riess
    • Asian Americans and sport / Joel S. Franks
    • . pt. IV. Gender and American sport
    • The historical influence of sport in the lives of American females / Roberta J. Park
    • Title IX, race, and recent sport / Sarah K. Fields
    • Sport and masculinity / Kevin B. Wamsley and Macintosh Ross
    • Queering fields and courts: considerations on LGBT sport history
    • pt. V. The business of sport
    • Sport, television, and the media / Richard C. Crepeau
    • Commercialized sport, entrepreneurs, and unions in Major League Baseball / Braham Dabscheck
    • Play for pay: professional sports and American culture / Richard O. Davies
    • Sport in American film / Donald J. Mrozek
    • Hegemony and identity: the evolution of American women's participation in active sport tourism / Brenda P. Wiggins and Margaret J. Daniels
    • pt. VI. Material culture and sport
    • Playgrounds, stadiums, and country clubs / Robert C. Trumpbour
    • Building American muscle: a brief history of barbells, dumbbells, and pulley machines / Jan Todd and Jason Shurley
    • Sport training, sport science, and technology / Amanda N. Schweinbenz
    • pt. VII. Social movements and political uses of sport
    • "Faster, higher, stronger"
    • and more patriotic: American Olympic narratives / Mark Dyreson, Tom Rorke, and Adam Berg
    • American military sport from colonial times to the twenty-first century / Wanda Ellen Wakefield
    • A divided world: the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and sport during the Cold War / Chris Elzey
    • pt. VIII. Facets of sport in recent American culture
    • Active radicals: the political athlete in the contemporary moment / Amy Bass
    • Alternative, extreme (and avant-garde) sport / Robert E. Rinehart
    • Not quite a slam dunk: globalization and American team sports / John Nauright.
    ISBN
    • 9781138786752 ((hardback))
    • 1138786756 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016015432
    OCLC
    962485644
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