Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire - Couverture souple

Zeiler, Thomas W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742551695 ISBN 13 : 9780742551695

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena.

Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams through globalizations instruments of free enterprise, webs of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade after their tour.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II, Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT, Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad and co-author of Globalization and the American Century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742551695
• ISBN 13: 9780742551695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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