A Companion to American Sport History
Samenvatting
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
Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
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<p>Introduction 1<br /> Steven A. Riess</p>
<p>Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11</p>
<p>1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 13<br /> James C. Schneider</p>
<p>2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865 1920 32<br /> Gerald R. Gems</p>
<p>3 The Interwar and Post–World War II Eras, 1920 1960 60<br /> Ryan Swanson</p>
<p>4 Sport Since the 1960s 84<br /> Russ Crawford</p>
<p>Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107</p>
<p>5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport 109<br /> Mark Dyreson</p>
<p>6 Urbanization and American Sport 130<br /> Joseph C. Bigott</p>
<p>Part III Major Team Sports 153</p>
<p>7 Baseball Before 1920 155<br /> Leslie Heaphy</p>
<p>8 Baseball Since 1920 177<br /> Rebecca T. Alpert</p>
<p>9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History 202<br /> Kurt Edward Kemper</p>
<p>10 Professional Football 221<br /> Anthony Santoro</p>
<p>11 Basketball 246<br /> Aram Goudsouzian</p>
<p>Part IV Major Individual Sports 269</p>
<p>12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271<br /> Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith</p>
<p>13 Golf and Tennis 292<br /> Robert Pruter</p>
<p>14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag 313<br /> David N. Lucsko</p>
<p>15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects 334<br /> Alan S. Katchen</p>
<p>Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357</p>
<p>16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography 359<br /> Nicholas Evan Sarantakes</p>
<p>17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography 379<br /> Robert K. Barney</p>
<p>Part VI Sport and Social History 403</p>
<p>18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405<br /> Gerald R. Gems</p>
<p>19 The African American Athlete 434<br /> Louis Moore</p>
<p>20 Class and Sport 454<br /> Steven A. Riess</p>
<p>21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport 479<br /> Brian M. Ingrassia</p>
<p>22 Women in American Sport History 500<br /> Linda J. Borish</p>
<p>Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521</p>
<p>23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History 523<br /> J. Andrew Ross</p>
<p>24 Sport and the Media 552<br /> James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr</p>
<p>25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577<br /> Robert C. Trumpbour</p>
<p>Part VIII Sport and Culture 599</p>
<p>26 Sport and American Religion 601<br /> Richard Kimball</p>
<p>27 Not Always Natural : A Historiography of Sport in American Culture 615<br /> Kevin B. Witherspoon</p>
<p>28 Sports Biographies 634<br /> Maureen Smith</p>
<p>Index 656</p>