American Sports
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-205-88860-3 (ISBN)
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American 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.
A comprehensive revision to the 7th edition preserves the detailed coverage of sports history while incorporating recent scholarship and expanded treatment of the challenges and dilemmas of twenty-first century sports. Greater attention is given to the sporting activities of women, African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.
Pamela Grundy is an independent historian who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she pursues a variety of writing, teaching and museum projects. Her sports-related publications include Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, and Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball (co-written with Susan Shackelford). Her work on sports has been published in the Journal of American History, the International Journal of the History of Sport and Southern Cultures, and has received awards from the American Historical Association, the North American Society for Sport History the History of Education Society and the Oral History Association. Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has authored eight books, including Baseball: A History of American Game, 3rd. ed. (2008) and has had articles appear in the Journal of American History, American Quarterly, the Journal of Sport History, and the Journal of Popular Culture. Presently, he is completing a book tentatively entitled Down in the Hollows: A Tale of Neighborhood and Family in the Missouri Ozarks. Married with one adult child and three grandchildren, he continues to be an avid tennis player.
In This Section:
I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents
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
II) Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Sports in Early America
The North American Ball Game
The Mesoamerican Ball Game
European Sporting Traditions
European Sport in the Americas
Sport in the Southern British Colonies
Southern Festivals
Tensions in New England
"Lawful Sport” in New England and the Middle Colonies
The Great Awakening and Republican Ideology
Chapter 2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports
Conquering Space and Time
The Rise of Middle-Class Victorian Culture
“Rational” Recreation
Alternatives and Opposition
The Sporting Fraternity
The Base Ball Fraternity
The Elite Clubs
Sports Moves to the Center
Sports and Respect
Chapter 3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles
Enclaves of the Fancy
John Cox Stevens: Wealthy Sporting Patron
Pedestrianism
The Early History of American Prizefighting
Meanings of Prizefighting
Prizefighting in the Postbellum Era
Enter John L. Sullivan
Chapter 4. The Rise of America’s National Game
The Club-Based Fraternal Game
Baseball as a Commercial Enterprise
The National League
The Players’ Revolt
Between the Foul Lines and in the Stands
Baseball Overseas
Chapter 5. Elite Sports
Sports and the Forging of an American Upper Class
The Wealthy New York Sporting Community
Thoroughbred Horse Racing
Athletic Clubs
Amateurism and Its Uses
Cricket Clubs and Country Clubs
Chapter 6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports
Rowing: The First Intercollegiate Sport
Origins of Football
Walter Camp: Father of American Football
Football and the Strenuous Life
Football and the Making of College Communities
Football as a Sporting Spectacle
Chapter 7. Broader Horizons
The Carlisle Indians
Doors Close on African American Athletes
Women Join the Game
Fending Off Critics
Chapter 8. Sports, Culture and Nation: 1900-1945
Sports in Daily Life
The Media and Sports
Consumer Culture and a New Middle Class
Flappers and Female Athletes
Race and International Competition
Challenges
The Challenge of Amateurism
Chapter 9. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports
Luter Halsey Gulick Jr.
The Evolutionary Theory of Play
The Public Schools Athletic League
The Playground Movement
Public High School Sports
Chapter 10. The Age of Sports Heroes
Jack Johnson: Smashing Race Stereotypes
Babe Ruth: Extraordinary Success
Jack Dempsey and Tex Rickard: Charisma and Ballyhoo
Helen Wills: “The American Girl”
Chapter 11. Baseball’s Golden Age
Baseball’s Coming of Age
An Age of the Pitcher
Ty Cobb
The Quest for Order
The Black Sox Scandal and the Reign of Kenesaw Mountain Landis
An Age of Team Dynasties
The Negro Leagues
U.S.-Caribbean Connections
End of an Era
Chapter 12. The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle
The Age of Crisis
The Formation of Conferences
“King Football”
The Football Coach as Hero
Incomplete Democratization
Continuing Controversies
Chapter 13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women’s Sports
Babe Didrikson: Triumph and Struggle
Hazel Walker: Creating Professional Opportunities
Historically Black Colleges Nurture Female Athletes
All-American Girls
A War over Turf and Principles
Rah, Rah, Rah
Chapter 14. Globalizing Sports, Redefining Race
The Olympic Games
Jim Thorpe: American Olympic Legend
The Olympics as Civic Showcase
The Nazi Olympics
The Brown Bomber
Significance of Racial Accomplishment
Chapter 15. The Setting of Organized Sports Since World War II
Affluence and Suburbanization
Television
Television Transforms Sports
Roone Arledge, ABC and the Rise of Televised Sport
Sports and Social Change
A New Generation
Political Retrenchment
Cable and the Internet
Chapter 16. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television
Early Days
Pro Football’s Golden Age
Marketing Professional Team Sports
The Woes of Baseball
On the Diamond
Professional Basketball on the Rise
Players Get Involved
Chapter 17. College Sports in the Age of Television
The Economics of College Athletics
Evolution of a Cartel
College Football Goes Big-Time
Recruiting Big-Time Teams
College Basketball Enters the National Spotlight
Chapter 18. Racial Revolution
Jackie Robinson and the Politics of Restraint
Widening Opportunities
Muhammad Ali
The Olympic Project for Human Rights
Latino Athletes Step Up
Native Americans Protest “Indian” Mascots
Activism for Athletes: The End of the Reserve Clause
Chapter 19. Women's Liberation
Small Steps
Women’s Liberation and Title IX
Losing the Fight for Independence
Billie Jean King and the Women’s Tennis Association
Public Image
Conservative Retrenchment
Chapter 20. All Sports All the Time
Cable Television
NASCAR
Baseball Reaches Out to Latinos
Nike and the NBA
Selling Women’s Sports
Chapter 21. Sports in the Twenty-First Century
Youth Sports
The College “Arms Race”
Professionals and Performance-Enhancing Drugs
The NFL and CTE
Away from the Field
Who Should Be a Mascot?
Who Is an American?
Who Is a Woman?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.9.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 187 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-88860-7 / 0205888607 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-88860-3 / 9780205888603 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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