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  • Horse Racing the Chicago Way

    Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911

    by Steven Riess ...
    Series series Sports and Entertainment
    Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Touching Base

    Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era

    by Steven A. Riess ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues like Sunday games, ballpark construction, and promotion of the games. Focusing on Atlanta, New York, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia

    An Encyclopedia

    by Steven A. Riess ...
    A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as ... Read more

    $470.00 USD

  • Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920

    by Steven A. Riess ...
    Series series The American History Series
    Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history.New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readabilityExplores topics including urbanization, ethnicity, class, sport in educational institutions, women in ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age

    Edited by Steven A. Riess ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Companion to American Sport History

    Edited by Steven A. Riess ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history.Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sportFeatures contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport ... Read more

    $186.00 USD

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    A History

    by Richard O. Davies ...
    The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history.Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

    Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Stephen Partridge ...
    Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime, it has reflected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years, and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the game's global identity. Contributors contrast baseball's massive, big-business present with its ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

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  • More Than Just a Game

    Sports in American Life Since 1945

    by Kathryn Jay ...
    Series series Columbia Histories of Modern American Life
    More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Canada's Game

    Hockey and Identity

    by Andrew C. Holman ...
    Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $23.79 USD