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Book SynopsisSport in America, Volume II, offers readers 18 fresh essays arranged chronologically from the early American period to the present day to provide a historical context and offer perspective on changes that have occurred in sport over time.
Table of ContentsPart I: The Pattern of Sport in Early America, 1607-1776
Chapter 1: Sober Mirth and Pleasant Poisons: Puritan Ambivalence Toward Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
Bruce C. Daniels
Chapter 2: Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia
T. H. Breen
Part II: Transformation of Sport in a Rapidly Changing Society, 1776-1870
Chapter 3: Pedestrianism, Billiards, Boxing, and Animal Sports
Melvin L. Adelman
Chapter 4: Cheating, Gender Roles, and the Nineteenth-Century Croquet Craze
Jon Sterngass
Chapter 5: The National Game
Warren Goldstein
Part III Sport in the Era of Industrialization and Reform, 1870-1915
Chapter 6: Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and Display—The Pastimes of the Rich
Donald J. Mrozek
Chapter 7: Creating America’s Winter Golfing Mecca at Pinehurst, North Carolina: National Marketing and Local Control
Larry R. Youngs
Chapter 8: The Father of American Football
Michael Oriard
Part IV: Sport, The Great Depression, and Two World Wars, 1915-1950
Chapter 9: The World War I American Military Sporting Experience
S.W. Pope
Chapter 10: In Sports the Best Man Wins: How Joe Louis Whupped Jim Crow
Theresa E. Runstedtler
Chapter 11: Padres on MountOlympus: Los Angeles and the Production of the 1932 Olympic Mega-Event
Sean Dinces
Chapter 12: Going to Bat for Jackie Robinson: The Jewish Role in Breaking Baseball’s Color Line
Stephen H. Norwood and Harold Brackman
Part V: Sport in the Age of Television, Discord, and Personal Fulfillment, 1950-1985
Chapter 13: Toil and Trouble: A Parable of Hard Work and Fun
David W. Zang
Chapter 14: Victory for Allah: Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and American Society
David K. Wiggins
Chapter 15: The Fight for Title IX
Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
Part VI: Sport During the Period of Celebrity and Globalization, 1985-Present
Chapter 16: Yearning for Yesteryear: Cal Ripken, Jr., The Streak, And the Politics of Nostalgia
Daniel A. Nathan and Mary G. McDonald
Chapter 17: Manhood, Memory, and White Men’s Sports in the American South
Ted Ownby
Chapter 18: The Whole World Isn’t Watching (But We Thought They Were): The Super Bowl and U.S. Solipsism
Christopher R. Martin and Jimmie L. Reeves
