Martin C. Babicz, Thomas W. Zeiler

National Pastime

U.S. History Through Baseball

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity - baseball has reflected America's history and ideals. In this book, historians Martin Babicz and Thomas Zeiler find in baseball a window into America's past and into the values that allow both the sport and nation to endure: hope, tradition, escape, and revolution.

Produktdetails

• American Ways
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781442235847
• ISBN-10: 1442235845
• Artikelnr.: 42809477

Autorenporträt

Martin C. Babicz, Thomas W. Zeiler

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1: Baseball in Tocqueville's America (To 1870)
Chapter 2: The Industrialization of Leisure (1871 to 1883)
Chapter 3: Color and Global Barriers (1865 to 1918)
Chapter 4: The American Labor Movement & the Players' League (1884 to 1891)
Chapter 5: Progressivism and the American League (1892 to 1903)
Chapter 6: Normalcy and the Black Sox Scandal (1904 to 1922)
Chapter 7: Babe Ruth and the Roaring Twenties (1920 to 1929)
Chapter 8: Segregation and the Negro Leagues (1896 to 1949)
Chapter 9: Baseball and the Great Depression (1929 to 1940)
Chapter 10: Baseball Goes to War (1941 to 1945)
Chapter 11: Jackie Robinson and Civil Rights (1946 to 1987)
Chapter 12: The Postwar American Century (1945 to 1964)
Chapter 13: Change and Revolution (1960 to 1975)
Chapter 14: Baseball in Post-Industrial America (Since 1975)
Chapter 15: A Global Game (Since 1865)
Epilogue: Traditions
Bibliographic Essay