{"product_id":"they-will-have-their-game-9781501752001","title":"They Will Have Their Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThey Will Have Their Game\u003c\/i\u003e, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these sporting activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Will Have Their Game\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as races and business as a game. The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to questi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this highly readable scholarly work, Cohen offers a descriptive study in power and hierarchy in American society from 1750 to 1860 and the evolving role of 'sporting culture' in their expression. Well-chosen and well-placed reproductions of period artwork illustrate socialization between social groups and the exclusionary divides that increasingly restricted participation by women, black slaves, and freemen.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Will Have Their Game\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling description of the process by which sporting culture emerged in eastern North America.... political and cultural historians should read it, and they should do so with care.\u003c\/p\u003e * William \u0026amp; Mary Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is gracefully written, and a large number of well-chosen illustrations add to the narrative. \u003ci\u003eThey Will Have Their Game\u003c\/i\u003e has many strengths. Perhaps most impressive is the research, especially in letters and legal records, which captures a level of detail I would not have thought possible.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of the Early Republic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Meaning of Sport\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: The Colonial Period\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Early National Period\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sport Reborn\u003cbr\u003e 4. Prestige or Profit\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three: The Antebellum Period\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Mass Sporting Industry\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sporting Cultures\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Change and Persistence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409346568535,"sku":"9781501752001","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501752001.jpg?v=1730506503","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/they-will-have-their-game-9781501752001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}