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The Routledge history of American sport

2021
eBook
Abstract: 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.
Main title:
The Routledge history of American sport / edited by Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins and Gerald R. Gems.
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
New York [New York] : Routledge, 2017.Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource (47 entries) ; digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-453).Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xviii, 466 pages
Contents:
Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins, and Gerald R. Gems -- Part I. Introduction to American sport history: perspectives and prospects: 1 Theory and method in American sport history / John Soares; 2 New directions and future considerations in American sport history / Jaime Schultz; 3 The wild west of pedagogy: thoughts on teaching American sport history / Ryan Swanson -- Part II. Sport and education: 4 Progressive-era sport, education, and reform / Brian M. Ingrassia; 5 Intercollegiate sports / Ronald A. Smith; 6 High school sports / Robert Pruter; 7 Youth sports / Dennis Gildea -- Part III. Race, ethnicity, American sport, and identity: 8 Native American sports / John D. Bloom; 9 African Americans and sports / Charles H. Martin; 10 Latinos and sport / Adrian Burgos, Jr.; 11 Irish Americans and sport / Ralph C. Wilcox; 12 German Americans and sport / Annette R. Hofmann; 13 Sport and Italian American identity / Gerald R. Gems; 14 Jews and American sports / Steven A. Riess; 15 Asian Americans and sport / Joel S. Franks -- Part IV. Gender and American sport: 16 The historical influence of sport in the lives of American females / Roberta J. Park; 17 Title IX, race, and recent sport / Sarah K. Fields; 18 Sport and masculinity / Kevin B. Wamsley and Macintosh Ross; 19 Queering fields and courts: considerations on LGBT sport history / Rita Liberti -- Part V. The business of sport: 20 Sport, television, and the media / Richard C. Crepeau; 21 Commercialized sport, entrepreneurs, and unions in major league baseball / Braham Dabscheck; 22 Play for pay: professional sports and American culture / Richard O. Davies; 23 Sport in American film / Donald J. Mrozek; 24 Hegemony and identity: the evolution of American women's participation in active sport tourism / Brenda P. Wiggins and Margaret J. Daniels -- Part VI. Material culture and sport: 25 Playgrounds, stadiums, and country clubs / Robert C. Trumpbour; 26 Building American muscle: a brief history of barbells, dumbbells, and pulley machines / Jan Todd and Jason Shurley; 27 Sport training, sport science, and technology / Amanda N. Schweinbenz -- Part VII. Social movements and political uses of sport: 28 "Faster, higher, stronger"- and more patriotic: American Olympic narratives / Mark Dyreson, Tom Rorke, and Adam Berg; 29 American military sport from colonial times to the twenty-first century / Wanda Ellen Wakefield; 30 A divided world: the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and sport during the Cold War / Chris Elzey -- Part VIII. Facets of sport in recent American culture: 31 Active radicals: the political athlete in the contemporary moment / Amy Bass; 32 Alternative, extreme (and avant-garde) sport / Robert E. Rinehart; 33 Not quite a slam dunk: globalization and American team sports / John Nauright -- Suggested further readings.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781787856103 (electronic version)9781138786752 (hardback)1138786756 (hardback)9781315767123 (ebook)
Dewey class:
796.0973
LC class:
GV583
Language:
English
BRN:
501434
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