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Completely updated and revised, American Sports sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. This highly-acclaimed book 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 book 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 book also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society
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Revised to give greater attention to continuities in the American sporting experience, this widely-acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Acutely sensitive to clarity and style, it gives emphasis to the historical relationship between sports and such major social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender, and region, as well as the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.
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The revised edition of this widely-acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the historical relationship between sports and such major social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender, region and the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.
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American Sports from the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
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Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1990
ISBN 10: 0130291331
ISBN 13: 9780130291332
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. 357pp. Photos and illustrations. Inscribed by the author to Allan Guttmann, well-known sports historian and author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 065523