American Sports - Couverture souple

Rader, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130801127 ISBN 13 : 9780130801128

Editeur : Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and is coeditor of the Sport and Society Series of the University of Illinois Press.  He has recently authored the third edition of Baseball: A History of America’s Game (2008), the second edition of American Ways: A History of American Cultures, 2 vols. (2006), and has had articles appear in The Journal of American History, Western History Quarterly, American Quarterly, Pacific Historical Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Sport History. Married with two adult children and three grandchildren, he continues to be an avid tennis player.   

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 fan can bind diverse groups together. This text also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130801127
• ISBN 13: 9780130801128
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible