American sport in international history the United States and the world since 1865
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Huddled Masses -- Introduction -- Immigration and the Emergence of Modern Sport in America -- Basketball and Urban Space -- Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing -- American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | New Approaches to International History
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Huddled Masses -- Introduction -- Immigration and the Emergence of Modern Sport in America -- Basketball and Urban Space -- Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing -- American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement -- America and the Modern Olympic Movement -- Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games -- The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris -- The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair -- Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry, and the 1908 London Games -- Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games -- Baseball and American Empire -- Foreigners to Fans -- Cannons in the Outfield -- Baseball's World Tours -- Conjuring the National Pastime -- Notes -- Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe -- 2 In Service of the State -- Introduction -- The Growing Business of Baseball -- Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media -- The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad -- Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport -- Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America -- Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist 1920s and 1930s -- The Olympics and War -- Olympic Growth in the 1920s and 1930s -- Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics -- US Sport in the Second World War -- Notes -- Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- 3 The Dawn of the Activist Athlete -- Introduction -- Postwar Professional Sport in America -- The NFL Sets the Edge -- The Making of the NBA -- Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after the Second World War -- Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War -- The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights -- Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War -- Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport -- Muhammad Ali v. United States. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 237 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781350134706 978-1-350-13470-6 9781350134713 978-1-350-13471-3 |