ISBN:
0415399645
,
9780415399647
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 258 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Sport in the global society
DDC:
306.4830973
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
;
Sports and state
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Sportsoziologie
Note:
"Previously published as special issue of The international journal of the history of sport"
,
Prologue: The paradoxes of American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism
,
Benevolent America: rural women, physical recreation, sport and health reform in ante-bellum New England
,
Aggressive America: media nationalism and the 'war' over Olympic pictures in sport's 'golden age'
,
Insular America: the NBA began in Akron? The Midwest Conference in the 1930s
,
Integrating America: Jackie Robinson, critical events and baseball black and white
,
Exclusionary America: Jackie Robinson, decolonization and baseball not black and white
,
Reformist America: 'The Oberlin experiment': the limits of Jack Scott's 'athletic revolution' in post-1960s America
,
Community America: who owns Wrigley Field?
,
Exceptionalist America: American sports fans' reaction to internationalization
,
Rejected America: Adolfo Luque, American interventionism and Cubanidad
,
Challenged America: China and America: women and sport, past, present and future
,
Epilogue: 'Empire in denial": an exceptional kind of imperialism
