04091cam a2200409 i 4500 BJBSDDR 20231013110508.0 ta 131119s2014 nju ob 001 0 eng 9780470656129 (cloth) 0470656123 (cloth) DLC eng DLC eng pcc n-us--- GV 853 C737 2014 796.0973 A companion to American sport history / edited by Steven A. Riess. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 xii, 692 pages ; 25 cm. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history 32560 Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: 1. The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 / Steven A. Riess 2. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865-1920 / James C. Schneider 3. The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920-1960 / Gerald R. Gems 4. Sport Since the 1960s / Ryan Swanson 5. Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport / Russ Crawford 6. Urbanization and American Sport / Mark Dyreson 7. Baseball Before 1920 / Joseph C. Bigott 8. Baseball Since 1920 / Leslie Heaphy 9. Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History / Rebecca T. Alpert 10. Professional Football / Kurt Edward Kemper 11. Basketball / Anthony Santoro 12. Boxing: The Manly Art / Aram Goudsouzian 13. Golf and Tennis / Andrew R.M. Smith / Randy Roberts 14. American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag / Robert Pruter. Contents note continued: 15. Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects / David N. Lucsko 16. The United States and International Sport: A Historiography / Alan S. Katchen 17. The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography / Nicholas Evan Sarantakes 18. Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport / Robert K. Barney 19. The African American Athlete / Gerald R. Gems 20. Class and Sport / Louis Moore 21. Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport / Steven A. Riess 22. Women in American Sport History / Brian M. Ingrassia 23. Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History / Linda J. Borish 24. Sport and the Media / J. Andrew Ross 25. Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences / James R. Walker / Robert V. Bellamy Jr 26. Sport and American Religion / Robert C. Trumpbour. Contents note continued: 27. Not Always "Natural": A Historiography of Sport in American Culture / Richard Kimball 28. Sports Biographies / Kevin B. Witherspoon 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. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Sports United States Law and legislation 5788 Deportes Legislación Estados Unidos 5752 Deportes Historia Estados Unidos 32561 Riess, Steven A., 1947- 31270 editor 7 cbc origcop 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK sba 119878 119878 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-07-14 0 GV 853 C737 2014 00000170016 2023-07-14 00:00:00 1 2023-07-14 BK