Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

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Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan
Routledge, 13. sep. 2013 - 288 sider

A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the contributors outline the story of how American sport has contributed to a climate of insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism, from a symbolic rejection of British rule and British sports to the current status of all-American sports such as baseball and basketball in the face of globalization.

 

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Rural Women Physical Recreation Sport and Health Reform in AnteBellum New England
1
Media Nationalism and the War over Olympic Pictures in Sports Golden Age
29
The NBA Began in Akron? The Midwest Conference in the 1930s
45
Jackie Robinson Critical Events and Baseball Black and White
66
Jackie Robinson Decolonization and Baseball not Black and White
91
The Oberlin Experiment The Limits of Jack Scotts Athletic Revolution in Post1960s America
115
Who Owns Wrigley Field?
141
American Sports P ans Reaction to Internationalization
161
Adolfo Luque American Interventionism and Cubanidad
191
China and America Women and Sport Past Present and Future
228
Empire in Denial An Exceptional Kind of Imperialism
249
Index
253
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Mark Dyreson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University

J. A. Mangan is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde

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