Major Problems in American Sport History

Riess, Steven A. (Edited By)

ISBN 10: 0669353809 / ISBN 13: 9780669353808

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, USA, 1997

About this Item

Soft cover with illustrated boards. Illustrated. The top and base of the spine show minor shelf wear. 437 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Major Problems in American Sport History
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, USA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0669353809
• ISBN 13: 9780669353808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sports & Games

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Synopsis

Each topic in this text is covered by both secondary readings and a wide variety of primary source documents, including legal decisions, diary entries, newspaper reports, literary accounts, government hearings, and advertisements for athletic equipment.

About the Author

Steven A. Riess (Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 1974) formerly the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University is the author of several books, three of which were cited by CHOICE as �Outstanding Academic Books.� Other awards include the Webb-Smith Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among the founding members of the North American Society for Sport History, he edited the Journal of Sport History from 1985 to 1992.