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The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad - Softcover

 
9780786441297: The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad
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ISBN 10: 0786441291 ISBN 13: 9780786441297
Verlag: McFarland, 2010

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Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectives of race, sexual orientation, economic power, social class, imperialism, nationalism, and international diplomacy. Together, the essays underscore the point that baseball is not just a form of entertainment but a major part of the culture and power struggles of American life as well as the nation's international footprint.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ron Briley is assistant headmaster and teaches history at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His baseball essays have been published in the annuals for the Cooperstown Symposium and in such journals as Baseball History and Nine. He is the author of several books and lives in Albuquerque.

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Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectives of race, sexual orientation, economic power, social class, imperialism, nationalism, and international diplomacy. Together, the essays underscore the point that baseball is not just a form of entertainment but a major part of the culture and power struggles of American life as well as the nation's international footprint.

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Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectives of race, sexual orientation, economic power, social class, imperialism, nationalism, and international diplomacy. Together, the essays underscore the point that baseball is not just a form of entertainment but a major part of the culture and power struggles of American life as well as the nation's international footprint.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786441291
ISBN 13 
9780786441297
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
258
Herausgeber
Briley Ron
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