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| Author | : Steven Riess |
| Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781133311089 |
This book presents essential, readable, and provocative documents and essays that illuminate the American sporting experience from a variety of viewpoints. A volume in the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series, it is designed to encourage critical thinking about history. The documents are primary sources, selected for how they illustrate major developments in the rise of sport, and often, for how they illuminate the accompanying essays. They include government reports, court cases, contemporary newspaper articles, diary entries, and advertisements for athletic equipment. The essays were chosen to cover broadly the field of sport history, based on the particular significance of each essay to our understanding of sport history as well as the quality of the writing, research, and analysis. Introductions and headnotes for the readings provide context to help students better understand the material. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
| Author | : Steven A. Riess |
| Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Sports |
| ISBN | : 9780669353808 |
Each topic in this text is covered by both secondary readings and a wide variety of primary source documents, including legal decisions, diary entries, newspaper reports, literary accounts, government hearings, and advertisements for athletic equipment.
| Author | : Riess |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014 |
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| ISBN | : 9781473714182 |
| Author | : Steven A. Riess |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 921 |
| Release | : 2014-03-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1118609409 |
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 sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
| Author | : Linda J. Borish |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317662490 |
The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through innovative themes and topics such as the business of sport, material culture and sport, the political uses of sport, and gender and sport, this text offers an interdisciplinary analysis of American leisure. Rather than moving chronologically through American history or considering the historical origins of each sport, these topics are dealt with organically within thematic chapters, emphasizing the influence of sport on American society. The volume is divided into eight thematic sections that include detailed original essays on particular facets of each theme. Focusing on how sport has influenced the history of women, minorities, politics, the media, and culture, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and discussion. The volume offers a comprehensive view of the history of sport in America, pushing the field to consider new themes and approaches as well. Including a roster of contributors renowned in their fields of expertise, this ground-breaking collection is essential reading for all those interested in the history of American sport.
| Author | : Dave Zirin |
| Publisher | : New Press People's History |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781595584779 |
A riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests, this is an alternative political history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Replete with surprises for seasoned sports, it will also amaze anyone interested in history with the connections Zirin draws between politics and sports. A groundbreaking book, it looks at the history of sports in the US through the lens of politics and culture, and shows how athlete-rebels have used sports for social and political change.
| Author | : Dennis Merrill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Dennis Merrill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully-selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions on the material presented.
| Author | : Richard O. Davies |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2016-05-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1118912543 |
The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe Paterno. Features extensive revisions and updates, along with a leaner, faster-paced narrative than previous editions Addresses the social, economic, and cultural interaction between sports and gender, race, class, and other larger issues Provides expanded coverage of college sports, women in sports, race and racism in organized sports, and soccers sharp rise in popularity Features an all-new section that tackles the growing controversy of head injuries and concussions caused by contact sports
| Author | : Douglas Booth |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2007-05-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1134459378 |
2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year The literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing. However, in comparison to most mainstream histories, sport history has rarely been called upon to question its foundations and account for the basis of its historical knowledge. In this book, Booth offers a rigorous assessment of sport history as an academic discipline, exploring the ways in which professional historians can gather materials, construct and examine evidence, and present their arguments about the sporting past. Part 1 examines theories of knowledge, while Part 2 goes on to scrutinize the uses of historical knowledge in popular and academic studies of sport history. With clear structure, examples, summary tables and a detailed glossary, The Field provides students, teachers and researchers with an unparalleled resource to tackle issues fundamental to the future of their subject, and sets the agenda for the debate to come.
