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American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports (6th Edition) (Paperback)
This highly-acclaimed survey of American sports offers a reflective, analytical history from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, the book considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a fan can bind diverse groups together. The book also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.
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Revised to give greater attention to continuities in the American sporting experience, this widely-acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Acutely sensitive to clarity and style, it gives emphasis to the historical relationship between sports and such major social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender, and region, as well as the powe (more…)






