Ambassadors in Pinstripes

The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

AvThomas W. Zeiler

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena.Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade after their tour.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-22
Mått:155 x 232 x 15 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742551695

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Bollsport inom Sport, fritid och hobby

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Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II, Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT, Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad and co-author of Globalization and the American Century.

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In 1888-89 two teams of professional baseball players squared off against one another on an international tour that included games in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, and England. In this delightful book, Thomas Zeiler tells the story of this tour and puts it in the context of the imperial expansion of the United States that was so much a part of our diplomacy at the end of the 19th century. On the one hand, this is baseball history for adults. On the other, it is a painless — even pleasurable — way to introduce students to the global foreign policy that Americans would implement thereafter.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction: Baseball, Globalization, and Empire2 Marketing: Albert Spalding's Chicago3 Movement: The American West4 An Empire of Race: Southern Seas5 Old and New World Cultures: Europe6 National Identity: Return to America7 Conclusion: Imperial Imagination8 Bibliography