Description
Book SynopsisA Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the burgeoning field of American sport history. The volume features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Steven A. Riess
Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11
1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 13
James C. Schneider
2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865–1920 32
Gerald R. Gems
3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920–1960 60
Ryan Swanson
4 Sport Since the 1960s 84
Russ Crawford
Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107
5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport 109
Mark Dyreson
6 Urbanization and American Sport 130
Joseph C. Bigott
Part III Major Team Sports 153
7 Baseball Before 1920 155
Leslie Heaphy
8 Baseball Since 1920 177
Rebecca T. Alpert
9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History 202
Kurt Edward Kemper
10 Professional Football 221
Anthony Santoro
11 Basketball 246
Aram Goudsouzian
Part IV Major Individual Sports 269
12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271
Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith
13 Golf and Tennis 292
Robert Pruter
14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag 313
David N. Lucsko
15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects 334
Alan S. Katchen
Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357
16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography 359
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography 379
Robert K. Barney
Part VI Sport and Social History 403
18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405
Gerald R. Gems
19 The African American Athlete 434
Louis Moore
20 Class and Sport 454
Steven A. Riess
21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport 479
Brian M. Ingrassia
22 Women in American Sport History 500
Linda J. Borish
Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521
23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History 523
J. Andrew Ross
24 Sport and the Media 552
James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr
25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577
Robert C. Trumpbour
Part VIII Sport and Culture 599
26 Sport and American Religion 601
Richard Kimball
27 Not Always “Natural”: A Historiography of Sport in American Culture 615
Kevin B. Witherspoon
28 Sports Biographies 634
Maureen Smith
Index 656
