Sport, Culture & Society – serie
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26 produkter
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
Häftad, 2015
376 kr
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Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and …
Democratic Sports
Men's and Women's College Athletics During the Depression
Av Brad Austin
Häftad, 2015
366 kr
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American public universities suffered tremendous funding cuts during the 1930s, yet they were also responsible for educating increasing numbers of students. The mounting financial troubles, coupled with a perceived increase in the number of “radical” student activists, contributed to a general …
New York Sports
Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
Häftad, 2018
377 kr
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New York has long been both America’s leading cultural center and its sports capital, with far more championship teams, intracity World Series, and major prizefights than any other city. Pro football’s “Greatest Game Ever Played” took place in New York, along with what was arguably history’s most …
Defending the American Way of Life
Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
Av Kevin B. Witherspoon, Toby C. Rider
Häftad, 2018
532 kr
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The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft …
Moving Boarders
Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports
Av Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
347 kr
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Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in …
Olimpismo
The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean
Av Antonio Sotomayor, Cesar R. Torres
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region. The nine essays here investigate the …
George Dixon
The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870–1908
Häftad, 2021
350 kr
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On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New Orleans Carnival of Champions boxing tournament. That victory sparked celebrations across Black communities nationwide but fostered unease among sporting fans and officials, delaying …
Crown Games of Ancient Greece
Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes
Av David Lunt
Inbunden, 2022
873 kr
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The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Neman Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks …
Crown Games of Ancient Greece
Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes
Av David Lunt
Häftad, 2022
294 kr
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The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Neman Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks …
Berlin Sports
Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis
Av Heather L. Dichter, Molly Wilkinson Johnson
Häftad, 2024
327 kr
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In many American cities, individual athletes, professional teams, and university sports are integral to the cities’ sporting identities. Berlin, in contrast, features no single hallmark sport, team, or annual event. Five political regimes, wartime destruction, and four decades of division instead …
Hoop Crazy
The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton
Inbunden, 2013
481 kr
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Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for …
DC Sports
The Nation's Capital at Play
Av Chris Elsey, David K . Wiggins
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, butsport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the country’s most avid sports fans. DC Sports gathers seventeen essays examining the history of sport in the nation’s capital, from turn-of-the-century …
Baltimore Sports
Stories from Charm City
Häftad, 2016
294 kr
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Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City …
Separate Games
African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation
Av David K. Wiggins, Ryan Swanson
Häftad, 2016
383 kr
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The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, …
San Francisco Bay Area Sports
Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community
Av Rita Liberti, Maureen Smith
Häftad, 2017
303 kr
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San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural …
Making March Madness
The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951
Av Chad Carlson
Inbunden, 2017
540 kr
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Throughout the NCAA Tournament’s history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premiere tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a …
LA Sports
Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels
Av Wayne Wilson, David K. Wiggins
Häftad, 2018
350 kr
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LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the …
Defending the American Way of Life
Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
Av Kevin B. Witherspoon, Toby C. Rider
Inbunden, 2018
868 kr
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The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft …
Moving Boarders
Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports
Av Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
868 kr
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Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in …
New Orleans Sports
Playing Hard in the Big Easy
Häftad, 2019
355 kr
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New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city's culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three …
Gridiron Gourmet
Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate
Av Maria J. Veri, Rita Liberti
Inbunden, 2019
495 kr
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On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where they park their trucks, let down the gates, and begin a pregame ritual of drinking and grilling.Tailgating, which began in the early 1900s as a quaint picnic lunch outside of the …
Twin Cities Sports
Games for All Seasons
Häftad, 2020
355 kr
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The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the …
Separate Games
African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation
Av David K. Wiggins, Ryan Swanson
Häftad, 2020
337 kr
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Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate …
Seattle Sports
Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City
Häftad, 2020
327 kr
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Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play. The work gathered here covers Seattle’s professional sports culture …
George Dixon
The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870-1908
Inbunden, 2021
777 kr
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On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New Orleans Carnival of Champions boxing tournament. That victory sparked celebrations across Black communities nationwide but fostered unease among sporting fans and officials, delaying …
Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2022
294 kr
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Through the stories of six athletes—Alice Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee—Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of …
