American Sports
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978-0-205-66515-0 (ISBN)
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Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and is coeditor of the Sport and Society Series of the University of Illinois Press. He has recently authored the third edition of Baseball: A History of America’s Game (2008), the second edition of American Ways: A History of American Cultures, 2 vols. (2006), and has had articles appear in The Journal of American History, Western History Quarterly, American Quarterly, Pacific Historical Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Sport History. Married with two adult children and three grandchildren, he continues to be an avid tennis player.
1 Sports in Early America
Britain’s Festive Culture
The Puritan Assault upon Britain’s Festive Culture
Lawful Sport” in New England and the Middle Colonies
Sporting Ways of the Southern Colonies
Tavern Pastimes
The Backcountry’s Sporting Ways
Pastimes of the Revolutionary Era
2 The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports
Conquering Space and Time
The Rise of Middle-Class Victorian Culture
“Rational” Recreation and Muscular Christianity
An Oppositional Culture
Enclaves of the Oppositional Culture
Nineteenth-Century Sporting Groups
3 The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles
John Cox Stevens: Wealthy Patron of Antebellum Sporting Spectacles
Pedestrianism, Rowing, and Billiards
Early History of American Prizefighting
Meanings of Prizefighting
Prizefighting in the Postbellum Era
Enter John L. Sullivan
Postbellum Thoroughbred Horse Racing
4 The Rise of America’s National Game
The Club-Based Fraternal Game
Baseball as a Commercial Enterprise
The National League
The Players’ Revolt
Ethnics and African Americans
Between the Foul Lines and in the Stands
5 Nineteenth-Century Sporting Communities
Ethnic (or Immigrant) Sporting Communities
Turner Societies
African American Sporting Communities
The Wealthy New York Sporting Community
Sports and the Forging of an American Upper Class
Athletic Clubs
Amateurism and Its Uses
Cricket Clubs and Country Clubs
6 The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports
The First Intercollegiate Sport
Early Intercollegiate Baseball, Track, and Football
Walter Camp: Father of American Football
Football and the Making of College Communities
Football Becomes an Upper-Class Sporting Spectacle
7 The Rise of Organized Youth Sports, 1880—1920
The Social Context
The Cultural Context
Luther Halsey Gulick Jr.
The Evolutionary Theory of Play
The Public Schools Athletic League
The Playground Movement
Private Academy and High School Sports
8 The Setting for Organized Sports, 1890—1950
The Media and Sports
The New Middle Class, Modern Consumer Culture, and the Quest for Excitement
Islands of Pleasure
The Strenuous Life
Changing Ideals of Physical Beauty
An Age of Racial Segregation
9 The Age of Sports Heroes
Babe Ruth
Red Grange
Jack Johnson
The Golden Age of Boxing
10 Baseball’s Golden Age
Baseball’s Coming of Age
An Age of the Pitcher
Ty Cobb
Baseball’s Quest for Order
The Black Sox Scandal and the Reign of Kenesaw Mountain Landis
An Age of Team Dynasties
Black Baseball
11 The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle
The Age of Crisis, 1890—1913
The Issue of Brutality and Major Rule Changes
The Formation of Conferences
The Reign of King Football
The Football Coach as Hero
The Incomplete Democratization of College Football
Continuing Controversies
12 The Club Sports Go Public
Tennis Goes Public
Golf Goes Public
The Emperor, Bobby Jones
Track and Field
The Revived Olympic Games
13 The Rise and Decline of Organized Women’s Sports, 1890—1960
The Athletic Girl
Early Women’s Basketball
The Arrival of the Women Sports’ Heroes
The War over Turf and Principles
Female Cheerleaders
The Rise and Decline of Women’s Softball and Baseball
14 The Setting of Organized Sports Since 1950
The Sprawling Metropolises
The Inner City and the Suburbs
The Nation’s Sporting Ideology
The Sporting Ideology Under Assault
The Quest for Self-Sufficiency and the Fitness Cult
The Advent of Televised Sports
Roone Arledge and Howard Cosell
The New Era of Sport and the Media
An Assessment of the Media
15 Professional Team Sports in the Age of Televison
The Woes of Baseball
On the Diamond
The Early Days of Pro Football
The Making of Pro Football
The Golden Age of Pro Football
Professional Basketball
Marketing Pro Team Sports
A New Age of Pro Team Sports
16 College Sports in the Age of Television
The NCAA Becomes a Cartel
The Soaring Popularity of College Football
A New Era of Television Rights
College Basketball Enters the National Arena
The Rising Popularity of College Basketball
The Scandals of the 1980s
The Financial Arms Race
17 American Sports in a Global Arena
The Politics of the Olympic Games
The Escalation of the Stakes
Amateurism Abandoned
Television and the Ascent of Golf
Tennis–Open to All
The New Global Sports Marketplace
18 The African American Quest for Equity in Sports
The Origins of Desegregation
Rickey and Robinson Integrate the National Game
Muhammad Ali
The Black Athletic Revolt
Continuing Discrimination
Have Sports Damaged Black America?
19 The Quest for Equity in Women’s Sports
Continuing Issues in Women’s Sports
The Impetus for Change
Rising Hopes and Expectations
Resistance to Equity in Women’s Sports
Continuing Constraints on Women’s Sports
20 The Athletes
Heroes or Merely Celebrities?
Escaping Serfdom
Free Agency
Mixed Responses
Youth Athletes
21 American Sports: a Concluding Statement
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2008 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 179 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 550 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-66515-2 / 0205665152 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-66515-0 / 9780205665150 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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