eTextbook 978-0205888603 American Sports

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Product details:

• ISBN:0205888607
• ISBN-13:9780205888603
• Authors: Benjamin G Rader, Pamela Grundy, Pamela Charlene Grady

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.

Table 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