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American Sports : From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports by Benjamin G. Rader (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100130977500
ISBN-139780130977502
eBay Product ID (ePID)2476386
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Sports : from the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
SubjectGeneral, Sociology of Sports, History, United States / General
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorBenjamin G. Rader
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number4
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-051198
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal796.0973
Edition DescriptionRevised edition,New Edition
Table Of ContentChapter 1. Sports in Early AmericaChapter 2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century SportsChapter 3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its SpectaclesChapter 4. The Rise of America's National GameChapter 5. Elite SportsChapter 6. The Rise of Intercollegiate SportsChapter 7. Broader HorizonsChapter 8. Sports, Culture and Nation: 1900-1945Chapter 9. The Rise of Organized Youth SportsChapter 10. The Age of Sports HeroesChapter 11. Baseball's Golden AgeChapter 12. The Intercollegiate Football SpectacleChapter 13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's SportsChapter 14. Globalizing Sports, Redefining RaceChapter 15. The Setting of Organized Sports Since World War IIChapter 16. Professional Team Sports in the Age of TelevisionChapter 17. College Sports in the Age of TelevisionChapter 18. Racial RevolutionChapter 19. Women's LiberationChapter 20. All Sports All the TimeChapter 21. Sports in the Twenty-First Century
SynopsisAmerican Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society., For courses in American Sport History and History of Sport. Completely updated and revised, this text sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. The Fifth Edition of this highly-acclaimed text offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, this text considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a fan can bind diverse groups together. This text also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.
LC Classification NumberGV583.R3 2004
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