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Sport In America: From Wicked Amusement to National Obsession Sport In America: From Wicked Amusement to National Obsession
About the Product
This book brings to one volume 19 essays representing some of the best sport history research in the field today. Sport in America helps fill the gaps in American sport history literature and provides a balanced perspective by presenting a variety of methodological approaches to historical research.
This affordable reader is primarily designed to supplement these widely used sport history texts:- Benjamin Rader, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators
- Betty Spears and Richard A. Swanson, History of Sport and Physical Activity in the United States
- William J. Baker, Sports in the Western World
- Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports
Written by distinguished scholars, these high-quality essays focus on the changes and patterns of American sport during five distinct eras over the past 400 years. Readers will find topics such as- the relationship between urbanization and sport;
- the role of women in sport;
- the influence of ethnic and racial groups in sport;
- the role of consumer culture in sport; and
- the interdependence among sport, physical education, and other health professions.
Students and scholars will appreciate the variety of perspectives and the opportunity to explore the diversity of America`s sporting past.
About the Author
David K. Wiggins, PhD, is director of undergraduate health science programs and professor of physical education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Since earning his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1979, Wiggins has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in sport history at Kansas State University and George Mason University.Wiggins is an expert on American sport, particularly as it relates to the involvement of black athletes in sport and physical activity. Since 1980, he has written about sport history and published articles in numerous journals, including the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Journal of Sport History, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, and The International Journal of History of Sport. His work has garnered two American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Research (AAHPERD) Writing Awards (1984 and 1986) and significantly affected subsequent research studies on African American involvement in sport.
In addition to his memberships in AAHPERD and the North American Society for Sport History, Wiggins has served as President of the AAHPERD History Academy and on the Publications Board of The Journal of Sport History. He has held editorships and memberships on various committees of professional societies dealing with sport history.
Table of Contents
Part I. The Pattern of Sport in Early America
Introduction
Puritans at Play?: Accusations and Replies
Allen Guttmann
Gender and Sporting Practice in Early America, 1750-1810
Nancy L. Struna
Suggested Readings
Part II. Health, Exercise, and Sport in a Rapidly Changing Society, 1820-1870
Introduction
Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch: The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry
Elliott J. Gorn
Sport and Popular Pastimes: Shadow of the Slavequarter
David K. Wiggins
Embodied Selves: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games, and Recreation for American Women, 1776-1865
Roberta J. Park
The First Modern Sport in America: Harness Racing in New York City, 1825-1870
Melvin L. Adelman
Suggested Readings
Part III. Sport in the Era of Industrialization and Reform, 1870-1915
Introduction
The Country of the Young: The Meaning of Baseball in Early American Culture
Ronald Story
Adopted by All the Leading Clubs: Sporting Goods and the Shaping of Leisure
Stephen Hardy
Preludes to the NCAA: Early Failures of Faculty Intercollegiate Athletic Control
Ronald A. Smith
Sports and Machine Politics in New York City, 1870-1920
Steven A. Riess
Part IV. Sport, Consumer Culture, and Two World Wars, 1915-1945
Introduction
School Sports as Social Training: The Case of Athletics and the Crisis of World War I
Timothy P. O’Hanlon
The Emergence of Consumer Culture and the Transformation of Physical Culture: American Sport in the 1920s
Mark Dyreson
The Playing Fields of St. Louis: Italian Immigrants and Sports, 1925-1941
Gary Ross Mormino
Sport and Community in California’s Japanese American "Yamato Colony", 1930-1945
Samuel O. Regalado
Suggested Readings
Part V. Transformation of Sport in the Age of Television, Discord, and Personal Fulfillment, 1945-Present
Introduction
The Cult and Ritual of Toughness in Cold War America
Donald J. Mrozek
The Roone Revolution
Randy Roberts and James Olson
Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport
Terry Todd
The Philosophical Conflicts in Men’s and Women’s Collegiate Athletics
Joan S. Hult
Hot Spicks Versus Cool Spades: Three Notes Toward a Cultural Definition of Prizefighting
Gerald Early
Suggested Readings
Audiences
Supplemental text for sport history classes and reference for scholars in sport history.
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