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Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, helps students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices. This text examines sports history as a social and cultural phenomenon, generates a better understanding of current practices in sport, and considers future developments in American sport.
This comprehensive resource explores sport through various historical periods—including premodern America, colonial times, and the modern era. Sports in American History, Third Edition, features critical new content that will provide a framework for understanding how and why sport intersects with many facets of American society:
Examination of how women, racial minorities, and ethnic and religious groups have influenced U.S. sporting culture
Highlights of contemporary issues affecting sport in the twenty-first century, including the Covid-19 pandemic; social justice movements; changes in name, image, and likeness policy; and sports technology
Reorganized content about sporting experiences in early America that highlight the most influential moments
Updated People and Places features and International Perspective sidebars that introduce key figures in sports history to provide a global understanding of sport
Full-length articles from the scholarly journal Sport History Review, delivered online through HKPropel, that supplement the article excerpts and associated discussion questions found in the text
Sports in American History, Third Edition, is unique in its level of detail, broad time frame, and focus on the evolving definitions of physical activity and games. Primary documents—including newspaper excerpts, illustrations, photographs, historical writings, quotations, and posters—provide firsthand accounts that will not only inform and fascinate students but also provide a well-rounded perspective on the historical development of American sport. Time lines of major milestones in sport and society provide context in each chapter, and an extensive bibliography features primary and secondary sources in American sports history.
A starting point into the intriguing field of sports history, this book will help students better understand the complexities of sport in the American experience and grasp how cultural factors and historical events have shaped sport differently in the United States than in other parts of the world.
Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.
Contents
Chapter 1. Sporting Experiences in Early America, 1400-1820
Native American Pastimes and Sports
Influence of Religion on English Colonists
Sport in American Colonies
The Great Awakening and the Place of Sport
Consumerism and Changing Patterns of Colonial Life
The Enlightenment in America and Ideas of Sport and the Body
Sport for Exercise Promoted in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period
Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War
Women's Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Republican Motherhood
Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns
Summary
Chapter 2. Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820-1860
Overview of the Antebellum Period
Health Reformers
Muscular Christianity
Women and Physical Activity
Rural Sporting Practices
Rise of Agricultural and Sporting Journalism
Sporting Practices of the Middle and Upper Classes
Public Spaces for Health and Sport
Sporting Pastimes of African Americans and Native Americans
Immigrants and Sporting Cultures
Summary
Chapter 3. Rise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1850-1870
Concept of Modern Sport
Subcommunities and the Growth of Modern Sport
Sporting Fraternity
Growth of Sports Clubs and Advancing Rational Recreation
Growth of American Team Sport and Competition
Rise of Intercollegiate Sport
The Civil War and Sporting Experiences
Summary
Chapter 4. New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age, 1870-1890
Sport and Social Stratification
Maintaining Ethnic Forms of Leisure
Development of an Intercollegiate Sporting Culture
Male Sporting Culture
Business of Sport
Gendered Sport, Class, and Social Roles
Regulation of Sport: Amateurism Versus Professionalism
Summary
Chapter 5. American Sport and Social Change During the Early Progressive Era, 1890-1900
Social Reformers of the Progressive Era
Play and Games in American Ideology
Recreational Spaces
Back-to-Nature Movement
Ethnic Groups
Body Culture
Sport and Technology
Modern Olympic Games
Summary
Chapter 6. Sport as Symbol: Acculturation and Imperialism, 1900-1920
Sport, Ethnicity, and the Quest for Social Mobility
Assimilation of Disparate Groups in American Society
Challenging Gender Boundaries
Resistance to Social Reform
Sport and Colonialism
Sport During World War I
Summary
Chapter 7. Sport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920-1950
War, Depression, and the Shaping of America
Social Change and the Spread of Sport
Heroes in the Golden Age
Media and the Commercialization of Sport
Summary
Chapter 8. Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950-1980
Sport in the Cold War
Evolution of the Sport-Media Relationship
Coverage of Alternative Heroes
Professional Sport and Labor Relations
Sport and the Civil Rights Movement
Sport, Narcissism, and the Existential Search for Self
Scientific Advancements and the Growth of Sport
Summary
Chapter 9. Globalized Sport, 1980-2000
Corporate Sporting Culture
Drawing Fans to Baseball
Michael Jordan and the Growth of Professional Basketball
Intercollegiate Sport and the NCAA
Women and Sport
Drug and Body Abuse Among Athletes
Violence in Sport
Discrimination at the End of the Twentieth Century
Individuality and Sport Icons
Alternative Sports
Summary
Chapter 10. Sport in the Early Twenty-First Century, 2000-2020
Business of Professional Sports Teams
Intercollegiate Sport and Conference Changes
Title IX and Sport Leadership
Women's Professional Teams and Endorsements
Modern Olympic Challenges and Stars
Sporting Crises
Traumatic Brain Injury
Covid-19 Virus Pandemic
X Games and Alternative Sports
Sports Across the Populace
Rise of the Runner
The Future of Sport
Sport in the Age of the Global Pandemic
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