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American Sports : From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
ISBN: 9780130977502 | 0130977500
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
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For courses in American Sport History and History of Sport. Completely updated and revised, this text sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. The Fifth Edition of this highly-acclaimed text offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, this text considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a f... MORE
1. Sports in Early America.
2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports.
3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles.
4. The Rise of America's National Game.
5. Nineteenth-Century Sporting Communities.
6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports.
7. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports, 1880-1920.
8. The Setting for Organized Sports, 1890-1950.
9. The Age of Sports Heroes.
10. Baseball's Golden Age.
11. The In... MORE
12. The Club Sports Go Public.
13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports, 1890-1960.
14. The Setting of Organized Sports Since 1950.
15. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television.
16. College Sports in the Age of Television.
17. American Sports in a Global Arena.
18. The African American Quest for Equity in Sports.
19. The Quest for Equity in Women's Sports.
20. The Athletes.
21. American Sports: A Concluding Statement.
2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports.
3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles.
4. The Rise of America's National Game.
5. Nineteenth-Century Sporting Communities.
6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports.
7. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports, 1880-1920.
8. The Setting for Organized Sports, 1890-1950.
9. The Age of Sports Heroes.
10. Baseball's Golden Age.
11. The In... MORE
12. The Club Sports Go Public.
13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports, 1890-1960.
14. The Setting of Organized Sports Since 1950.
15. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television.
16. College Sports in the Age of Television.
17. American Sports in a Global Arena.
18. The African American Quest for Equity in Sports.
19. The Quest for Equity in Women's Sports.
20. The Athletes.
21. American Sports: A Concluding Statement.
Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is co-editor of the Sport and Society Series of the University of Illinois Press.
