American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports - Softcover

Rader, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130977500 ISBN 13: 9780130977502

Verlag: Routledge, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

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Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is co-editor of the Sport and Society Series of the University of Illinois Press. He has recently authored American Ways: A Brief History of American Cultures (2001)and has had articles appear in The Journal of American History, American Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Sport History.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0130977500
• ISBN 13: 9780130977502
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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