{"product_id":"sports-in-american-history-9781492526520","title":"Sports in American History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition,journeys from the early American past to the present to give students a compelling grasp of the evolution of American sporting practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“An ideal curriculum textbook, \u003c\/i\u003eSports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization\u003ci\u003e is exceptionally well written, organized, and presented. Very highly recommended for both community and academic library sports history reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists, Sports in American History will be much appreciated by both academia and nonspecialist general readers with an interest in the culture and history of American sports.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Midwest Book Review (review of first edition) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sports in American History \u003ci\u003edoes a more than laudable job of including the ways in which individual women and nonwhites participated in and shaped American sport history; it also faithfully discusses and describes how the processes of colonization and Americanization and globalization occur, both through sport and concurrently.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Hodler, Visiting Assistant Professor in Sport Leadership \u0026amp; Management, Miami University Department of Kinesiology \u0026amp; Health \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/b\u003eSporting Experiences in Colonial America, 1400–1750 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Native American Pastimes and Sports \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Influence of Religion on English Colonists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport in American Colonies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Sport and Pastimes in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period, 1750–1820 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Great Awakening and the Place of Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Consumerism and Changing Patterns of Colonial Life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Enlightenment in America and Ideas of Sport and the Body \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Frontier and Backcountry Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Women’s Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Early National Period \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Native American Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820–1860 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Overview of the Antebellum Period \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Health Reformers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Muscular Christianity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Women and Physical Activity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rural Sporting Practices \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rise of Agricultural and Sporting Journalism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sporting Practices of the Middle and Upper Classes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Public Spaces for Health and Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sporting Pastimes of African Americans and Native Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Immigrants and Sporting Cultures \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/b\u003eRise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1850–1870 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Concept of Modern Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Subcommunities and the Growth of Modern Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sporting Fraternity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Growth of Sports Clubs and Advancing Rational Recreation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Growth of American Team Sport and Competition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rise of Intercollegiate Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Civil War and Sporting Experiences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age, 1870–1890 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport and Social Stratification \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Maintaining Ethnic Forms of Leisure \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Development of an Intercollegiate Sporting Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Male Sporting Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Business of Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gendered Sport, Class, and Social Roles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Regulation of Sport: Amateurism Versus Professionalism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e American Sport and Social Change During the Early Progressive Era, 1890–1900 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Social Reformers of the Progressive Era \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Play and Games in American Ideology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Recreational Spaces \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Back-to-Nature Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ethnic Groups \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Body Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport and Technology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Modern Olympic Games \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/b\u003eSport as Symbol: Acculturation and Imperialism, 1900–1920 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport, Ethnicity, and the Quest for Social Mobility \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Assimilation of Disparate Groups in American Society \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Challenging Gender Boundaries \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resistance to Social Reform \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport and Colonialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport During World War I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/b\u003eSport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920–1950 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e War, Depression, and the Shaping of America \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Social Change and the Spread of Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Heroes in the Golden Age \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Media and the Commercialization of Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950–1980 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport in the Cold War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Evolution of the Sport–Media Relationship \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Incorporation of Alternative Heroes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Professional Sport and Labor Relations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport and the Civil Rights Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sport, Narcissism, and the Existential Search for Self \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scientific Advancements and the Growth of Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/b\u003eGlobalized Sport, 1980–2000 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Corporate Sporting Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing Fans to Baseball \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Michael Jordan and the Growth of Professional Basketball \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Intercollegiate Sport and the NCAA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Women and Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drug and Body Abuse Among Athletes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Violence in Sport \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Discrimination at the End of the Twentieth Century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Individuality and Sport Icons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alternative Sports \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/b\u003eSport in the Early Twenty-First Century, 2000-2015 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Business of Professional Sports Teams \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Intercollegiate Sport and Conference Changes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Title IX and Sport Leadership \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Women’s Professional Teams and Endorsements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Modern Olympic Challenges and Stars \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sporting Crises \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Traumatic Brain Injury \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e X Games and Alternative 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