American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports ANNOTATION
Revised to give more attention to continuities in the American sporting experience, this widely-acclaimed book offers an analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It emphasizes the historical relationship between sports and class, race, ethnicity, gender, and region, as well as the power of sports to bind diverse people together.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Fifth Edition of this book offers an analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the meanings of sports in historical contexts and the historical relationship between sports and such social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender and region as well as the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
From the colonial era to the present, the author examines the evolution of sports. He covers a wide variety of sports that range from the big three of basketball, football, and baseball, to less widely practiced sports such as billiards and golf. Issues in sports development discussed include organizational structures; financial incentives; educational and cultural movements; prominent personalities; and social cleavages based around class, race, ethnicity, gender, and region. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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