TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riess,Steven A.
TI  - A companion to American sport history
SN  - 9780470656129 (cloth)
AV  - GV 853 C737 2014
U1  - 796.0973 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Hoboken, NJ : 
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Inc., 
KW  - Sports
KW  - United States
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Deportes
KW  - Legislación
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
N1  - 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

N2  - 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
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