A Companion to American Sport History (eBook)

Steven A. Riess (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-60940-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history.

• Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport
• Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history
• Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field 
• Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography

Steven A. Riess is the Bernard Brommel Research Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University. His books include City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (1989), Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, Revised Edition (1999), and The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913 (2011), and Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Steven A. Riess

Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11

1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport
in America through 1865 13

James C. Schneider

2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865-1920
32

Gerald R. Gems

3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920-1960
60

Ryan Swanson

4 Sport Since the 1960s 84

Russ Crawford

Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107

5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and
American Sport 109

Mark Dyreson

6 Urbanization and American Sport 130

Joseph C. Bigott

Part III Major Team Sports 153

7 Baseball Before 1920 155

Leslie Heaphy

8 Baseball Since 1920 177

Rebecca T. Alpert

9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as
Cultural History 202

Kurt Edward Kemper

10 Professional Football 221

Anthony Santoro

11 Basketball 246

Aram Goudsouzian

Part IV Major Individual Sports 269

12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271

Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith

13 Golf and Tennis 292

Robert Pruter

14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the
Checkered Flag 313

David N. Lucsko

15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and
Prospects 334

Alan S. Katchen

Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357

16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography
359

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A
Historiography 379

Robert K. Barney

Part VI Sport and Social History 403

18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405

Gerald R. Gems

19 The African American Athlete 434

Louis Moore

20 Class and Sport 454

Steven A. Riess

21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in
American Sport 479

Brian M. Ingrassia

22 Women in American Sport History 500

Linda J. Borish

Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521

23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of
American Sports Business History 523

J. Andrew Ross

24 Sport and the Media 552

James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr

25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577

Robert C. Trumpbour

Part VIII Sport and Culture 599

26 Sport and American Religion 601

Richard Kimball

27 Not Always "Natural": A Historiography of Sport
in American Culture 615

Kevin B. Witherspoon

28 Sports Biographies 634

Maureen Smith

Index 656

Rezensionen

"Steve Riess has assembled a cast of experts whose essays
make A Companion to American Sport History the go-to reference for
anyone -- old hand or new - looking to catch up on the vast
and growing literature in this field."

--Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire

"A trustworthy guide to the innumerable books and articles that
narrate and interpret American sport history."

--Allen Guttmann, Amherst College

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Notes on Contributors

Rebecca T. Alpert is associate professor of religion at Temple University. One of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi in the 1970s, she authored several books on twentieth-century American Jewish history and culture, gender and sexuality, and Jewish ethics. Co-chair of the Religion and Sport Section of the American Academy of Religion, she created and taught an undergraduate course on “Jews, America, and Sport” at Temple University. Author of Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2011), she was an expert commentator in Peter Miller’s documentary film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010).

Robert K. Barney, reared in Massachusetts, received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1968. He taught at Western University, London, Ontario for 41 years. He is recipient of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order (1998), the North American Society for Sport History’s Recognition Award for Exceptional Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Sport History (2003), and the Pierre de Coubertin Award given by the International Society of Olympic Historians for Lifetime Contributions to Historical Scholarship on the Modern Olympic Movement (2010). He is the author and editor of several books including Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism (2004) with Stephen Ween and Scott G. Martyn.

Robert V. Bellamy, Jr is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Multimedia Arts at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on such topics as media and sports, media technology, and television programming, and is the co-author, with Jim Walker, of Centerfield Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (2008), Television and the Remote Control: Grazing on a Vast Wasteland (1996), and The Remote Control in the New Age of Television (1993). He serves on the editorial boards of Communication & Sport and Nine: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture.

Joseph C. Bigott is associate professor of history at Purdue University, Calumet. He authored From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869–1929 (2001). Currently, he is writing an architectural history of high schools in metropolitan Chicago that offers analysis of the impact of school building on the class, gender, and racial experiences of urban youth in the twentieth century.

Linda J. Borish is associate professor in the Department of History, Western Michigan University. A specialist in the history of rural women and Jewish women athletes, she is the co-author with Gerald R. Gems and Gertrud Pfister of Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization (2008), and executive producer and historian for the documentary Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics (2007).

Russ Crawford is associate professor of history at Ohio Northern University, where he has taught since 2005. An alumnus of Chadron State College, he taught social studies and Spanish, before attending the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he received his PhD in 2004. He wrote The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life during the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1945–1963 (2008), and has also contributed chapters to books on baseball history and popular culture. Crawford is currently researching the history of American football in France from World War I to the present.

Mark Dyreson is professor of kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University where he has taught since 1998. The former president of the North American Society for Sport History, and a winner of the Webb-Smith historical essay contest, he is the author of Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience (1998) and Crafting Patriotism: America at the Olympic Games (2008).

Gerald R. Gems is professor of physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. The author of 10 books, he is a past president of the North American Society for Sport History, and former Fulbright scholar. He has lectured on sport history in 25 countries. His books include Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago (1997) and The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism (2006).

Aram Goudsouzian is professor of history at the University of Memphis, and co-editor of the University of Illinois Press series Sport and Society. His books include Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (2004) and King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution (2010). His next book, a narrative history of the June 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Leslie Heaphy, associate professor of history, Kent State University at Stark, is the author of The Negro Leagues, 1869 to 1960 (2003) and editor of the journal Black Ball, published by McFarland. She has edited three other books on the Negro leagues and women’s baseball.

Brian M. Ingrassia of the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University is a PhD graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. His first book, The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football (2012) won the 2013 North American Society of Sports Historians (NASSH) Annual Book Award. His current research examines the connection of early automotive sports to urbanization and the “good roads” movement. He is editor of the Sport and Popular Culture series at the University of Tennessee Press.

Alan S. Katchen is the author of Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot (2009). The book received Honorable Mention for the Cordner Nelson Prize of the Track & Field Writers of America and was nominated for the inaugural PEN/ESPN Prize for literary sportswriting. He is a Scholar in Residence at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches American history.

Kurt Edward Kemper is professor of history and director of the College of Arts and Sciences honors program at Dakota State University. He teaches and writes on the intersection of race, sport, and American culture and is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era (2009). His current project examines the role of race and reform in the origins of college basketball.

Richard Kimball received his PhD from Purdue University in 1999, and has been with the Department of History of Brigham Young University since 1998. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Sport History, Utah Historical Quarterly, and Mid-America, among others, and he is the author of Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940 (2003). He is currently working on a book that examines the deaths of American athletes and how society “uses” those deaths.

David N. Lucsko is assistant professor of history at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in the histories of technology, manufacturing, waste management, and the automobile. A PhD graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the former managing editor of Technology and Culture, and author of The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915–1990 (2008). Lucsko is currently working on his second monograph, a cultural history of automobile salvage yards.

Louis Moore received his PhD in American history from University of California, Davis in 2008. Currently he is assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University where he teaches African American history, civil rights, sport, and US history. His research interest is the interconnection between race, gender, class, and sport. Most recently, Moore published an article in the Journal of African American History entitled “Fit for Citizenship: Black Sparring Masters, gymnasium Owners, and the White Body, 1825–1886.” He is currently working on a manuscript about black prizefighters from 1815 to 1915.

Robert Pruter had been the government document librarian at Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois since 2001. His first love was music history, and he authored the prize-winning Chicago Soul (1991) and Doowop: The Chicago Scene (1996), and edited the Blackwell Guide to Soul Recordings (1993). Thereafter he turned to the study of sport history. His most recent book is The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930 (2013).

Steven A. Riess is a Bernard Brommel Research Professor, emeritus, at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, where he taught American history for 35 years. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and co-taught an NEH Seminar for college and university teachers on “Sport, Society, and Modern American Culture.” His writings have received many honors, including four Choice magazine citations for “Outstanding Academic Books.” A former editor of the Journal of Sport History, he has written several books in sport, including Sports in Industrial America, 1850–1920 (2nd ed. 2013), The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American history, sports history, sports, games, baseball, football, basketball, golf, motor racing, tennis, track and field, sports culture, evolution of sports, games • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • Geschichte • History • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas • Sportgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-118-60940-9 / 1118609409
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-60940-8 / 9781118609408