| Description |
viii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1 : The pattern of sport in early America -- Puritans at play? Accusations and replies / Allen Guttmann -- Gender and sporting practice in early America, 1750-1810 / Nancy L. Struna -- pt. 2 : Health, exercise, and sport in a rapidly changing society, 1820-1870 -- Gouge and bite, pull hair and scratch : the social significance of fighting in the southern backcountry / Elliott J. Gorn -- Sport and popular pastimes : shadow of the slavequarter / David K. Wiggins -- Embodied selves : the rise and development of concern for physical education, active games and recreation for American women, 1776-1865 / Roberta J. Park -- The first modern sport in America : harness racing in New York City, 1825-1870 / Melvin L. Adelman -- pt. 3 : Sport in the era of industrialization and reform, 1870-1915 -- The country of the young : the meaning of baseball in early American culture / Ronald Story -- Adopted by all the leading clubs : sporting goods and the shaping of leisure / Stephen Hardy -- Preludes to the NCAA : early failures of faculty intercollegiate athletic control / Ronald A. Smith -- Sports and machine politics in New York City, 1870-1920 / Steven A. Riess -- pt. 4 : Sport, consumer culture, and two world wars, 1915-1945 -- School sports as social training : the case of athletics and the crisis of World War I / Timothy P. O'Hanlon -- The emergence of consumer culture and the transformation of physical culture : American sport in the 1920s / Mark Dyreson -- The playing fields of St. Louis : Italian immigrants and sports, 1925-1941 / Gary Ross Mormino -- Sport and community in California's Japanese American Yamato Colony, 1930-1945 / Samuel O. Regalado -- pt. 5 : Transformation of sport in the age of television, discord, and personal fulfillment, 1945-present -- The cult and ritual of toughness in Cold War America / Donald J. Mrozek -- The Roone revolution / Randy Roberts and James Olson -- Anabolic steroids : the gremlins of sport / Terry Todd -- The philosophical conflicts in men's and women's collegiate athletics / Joan S. Hult -- Hot spicks versus cool spades : three notes toward a cultural definition of prizefighting / Gerald Early. |
| Subject |
Sports -- United States -- History.
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Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Sports History |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0873225201 |
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9780873225205 |
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