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23 produkter
Touching Base
Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
E-bok, 2023
585 kr
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The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America''s national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues …
City Games
The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
Häftad, 1991
367 kr
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Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban …
Touching Base
Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 1999
339 kr
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The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues …
Chicago Sports Reader
100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
Av Steven A. Riess, Gerald R. Gems
Häftad, 2009
353 kr
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The Chicago Sports Reader examines Chicago's long and glorious history of recreational and competitive sport, and as the home of the finest sporting events and most loyal fans in the United States. Contributors explore why sports have been especially important in Chicago, how these sports were …
Companion to American Sport History
Inbunden, 2014
2500 kr
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A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American …
Horse Racing the Chicago Way
Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
Inbunden, 2022
1014 kr
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Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York …
Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865–1913
E-bok, 2011
607 kr
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Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport …
Horse Racing the Chicago Way
Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
E-bok, 2022
605 kr
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Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York …
Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920
Häftad, 2012
374 kr
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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and …
Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920
E-bok, 2012
436 kr
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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability …
Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920
E-bok, 2012
427 kr
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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability …
Companion to American Sport History
E-bok, 2014
2840 kr
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A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American …
Companion to American Sport History
E-bok, 2014
2903 kr
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A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American …
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
E-bok, 2015
6508 kr
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A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of …
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
E-bok, 2015
6508 kr
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A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of …
Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2022
1228 kr
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, …
Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
E-bok, 2022
434 kr
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, …
Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
E-bok, 2022
434 kr
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, …
Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
Häftad, 2024
384 kr
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, …
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
2011
6787 kr
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A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of …
Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865–1913
Inbunden, 2011
524 kr
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Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport …
Sports and American Jew
Av Steven A. Riess, Steven Riess
Häftad, 1998
280 kr
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A collection of nine essays that delve into the relationship between Jewish Americans and the culture of sports. The book analyzes assimilation and acculturation, discrimination, gender, social class, and the building of a Jewish American community.
Horse Racing the Chicago Way
Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
Häftad, 2022
526 kr
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Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York …
