American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports

Name: American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
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ISBN: 9780130977502

ISBN-10: 0130977500

ISBN-13: 9780130977502

Edition: 4th 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Benjamin G. Rader

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For courses in American Sport History and History of Sport. Completely updated and revised, this text sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. The Fifth Edition of this highly-acclaimed text offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, this text considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a fan can bind diverse groups together. This text also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and…

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List price: $78.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the author ofAmerican Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports.




Sports in Early America



The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports



The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles



The Rise of America's National Game



Nineteenth-Century Sporting Communities



The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports



The Rise of Organized Youth Sports, 1880-1920



The Setting for Organized Sports, 1890-1950



The Age of Sports Heroes



Baseball's Golden Age



The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle



The Club Sports Go Public



The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports, 1890-1960



The Setting of Organized Sports Since 1950



Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television



College Sports in the Age of Television



American Sports in a Global Arena



The African American Quest for Equity in Sports



The Quest for Equity in Women's Sports



The Athletes



American Sports: A Concluding Statement