American Sports : From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports - 5th edition

Summary: 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 t ...show morehese 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.
Features :

• NEW--Revamped and additional material in each chapter with particular attention paid to women's sports.
• Ensures a balanced and contemporary presentation that students can relate to.
• NEW--A total revision of Chapter 11 on The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle.
• Discusses current issues such as continuing controversies, brutality, and the formation of conferences, so that students can possess a well-rounded and timely view of the topic.
• NEW--A greater emphasis in Chapter 7 on the role of sports in the forging of an American upper class.
• Helps students understand and analyze the societal affects of sports in our culture.
• NEW--New sections on the new middle class, consumer culture, and the quest for excitement (Chapter 8); female cheerleading (Chapter 13); and the new individualism and sports (Chapter 14).
• Examines the influence of sports within gender, class structure, culture, and the individual, illustrating for students how sports can affect various areas of their own lives.
• NEW--A complete updating of chapters 14 through 21.
• Offers students a more accessible and topical approach to the subject matter.
• Explores the connection between modern sports and society, including the influence of television on recent sport history.
• Gives students tangible examples of how sports affects our culture so they can thoroughly and accurately analyze the relationship between sports and society.
• Contains a vivid analysis of sports in the colonial era.
• Provides students with the historical framework so they can understand the growth of sports in society.
• Includes chapter summaries, illustrations, graphs, tables, and updated bibliographical information.
• Furnishes students with a host of supplemental study aids so they can better absorb core material.

Edition/Copyright: 5TH 04
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Published: 07/09/2003
International: No

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Rader, Benjamin G. : University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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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 Intercollegiate Football Spectacle.
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.

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