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48 produkter
Making the American Team
Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience
Av Mark Dyreson
E-bok, 2024
585 kr
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Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the …
Making the American Team
Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience
Av Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 1997
425 kr
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Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the …
Sport in the Americas
Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives
Av Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. …
Half Century of Super Bowls
National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle
Av Peter Hopsicker, Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Av Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Av Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those …
American National Pastimes - A History
Av Mark Dyreson, Jaime Schultz
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes …
Sport and American Society
Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
Inbunden, 2007
1521 kr
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A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the …
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance
America at the Olympics
Av Mark Dyreson
Inbunden, 2008
2510 kr
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In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft …
Sport and American Society
Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
Häftad, 2009
502 kr
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A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the …
Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States
Cathedrals of Sport
Av Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour
Inbunden, 2009
2585 kr
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Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced …
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
Inbunden, 2012
2825 kr
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Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing …
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a …
Mapping an Empire of American Sport
Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance
Av Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2510 kr
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through …
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
Häftad, 2012
909 kr
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For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a …
Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States
Cathedrals of Sport
Av Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour
Häftad, 2013
822 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced …
Sport in the Americas
Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives
Av Mark Dyreson
E-bok, 2019
589 kr
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Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US …
Sport in the Americas
Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives
Av Mark Dyreson
E-bok, 2019
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US …
Half Century of Super Bowls
National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle
Av Mark Dyreson, Peter Hopsicker
E-bok, 2019
559 kr
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In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in …
Half Century of Super Bowls
National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle
Av Mark Dyreson, Peter Hopsicker
E-bok, 2019
572 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the 'Long Twentieth Century'
Av Mark Dyreson, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
820 kr
Lägg i varukorg
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially …
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe
Perspectives from the 'Long Twentieth Century'
Av Mark Dyreson, Robert J. Lake m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
838 kr
Lägg i varukorg
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially …
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
E-bok, 2019
849 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 …
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
E-bok, 2019
830 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 …
Mapping an Empire of American Sport
Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance
Av Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
749 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through …
Sport in the Americas
Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives
Av Mark Dyreson
Inbunden, 2018
1521 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. …
Half Century of Super Bowls
National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle
Av Peter Hopsicker, Mark Dyreson
Inbunden, 2018
1521 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in …
American National Pastimes - A History
Av Mark Dyreson, Jaime Schultz
Inbunden, 2014
2585 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes …
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
Häftad, 2015
720 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing …
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance
America at the Olympics
Av Mark Dyreson
Häftad, 2015
772 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft …
