Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish, Gertrud Pfister

Sports in American History

From Colonization to Globalization

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Produktbeschreibung

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to help students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Third Edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 283mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1172g
• ISBN-13: 9781718203037
• ISBN-10: 1718203039
• Artikelnr.: 62951401

Autorenporträt

Gerald R. Gems, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the kinesiology department at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is a past vice president of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport and a past president of the North American Society for Sport History. He presented the 2016 Routledge Keynote, where he received the Routledge Prize in Sport History. Gems is an international scholar and the author of more than 250 publications, including 28 books. He served as the book review editor of the Journal of Sport History for more than two decades. He also received the Fulbright Senior Specialist award from 2007 to 2012 and was an Illinois Humanities scholar in history from 1999 to 2003. Gems earned his PhD in sports history at the University of Maryland. Linda J. Borish, PhD, is chair and an associate professor in the department of history at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Borish’s publications in sports history include her work as lead editor for The Routledge History of American Sport (Routledge). She is the author of numerous book chapters about women, gender, American sports history, and American Jewish history, including chapters in Gods, Games and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sport; Sports in Chicago; Sports and the American Jew; Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics; A Companion to American Sport History; New York Sports: Grit and Glamour in the Empire City; With God on Their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion; and others. Her scholarly articles have been published in the Journal of Sport History, The International Journal of the History of Sport , Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, Journal of Jewish Identities, American Jewish History, and others. Borish is the executive producer and historian for a 2007 documentary file—“Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics”—and is a past research associate of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University. Borish was selected as the international ambassador for the North American Society for Sport History for 2001-2002 and served on its executive council and publications board as well as serving as co-editor of book reviews for the Journal of Sport History. At Western Michigan University in the College of Arts and Sciences, Borish was awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Recognition Award for 2019-2020 and previously earned the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award in Professional and Community Service. Dr. Borish earned her PhD in American studies from the University of Maryland at College Park. Gertrud Pfister, PhD, is a retired professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She served as president of the International Sport Sociology Society from 2001 to 2007. Pfister also served as president of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport from 1993 to 2000 and won the association’s award for lifelong achievements in the area of sports history in 2005. She is a past vice president of the German Turner-Bund. Pfister won the Darlene Kluka Award from the Women’s Sport Foundation in 2006, the award of the European Working Group on Women in Sport in 2009, the Dorothy Ainsworth Research Award of the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW), and the German Gymnastic Association’s Els Schröder Award for research on women and sport in 2013. She has published more than 40 books and has been awarded two knighthoods from the president of Germany and one from the queen of Denmark. Pfister earned honorary doctorates at the Semmelweis University in Budapest 2007 and at the University of Malmö in 2013. She is to receive a third honorary doctorate from the National University of Taiwan in November 2021. Pfister earned PhDs in sports history and sociology at the University of Regensburg and the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Sporting Experiences in Early America, 1400–1820
Native American Pastimes and Sports
Influence of Religion on English Colonists
Sport in American Colonies
The Great Awakening and the Place of Sport
Consumerism and Changing Patterns of Colonial Life
The Enlightenment in America and Ideas of Sport and the Body
Sport for Exercise Promoted in the American Revolutionary Era and Early
National Period
Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War
Women’s Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Republican
Motherhood
Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns
Summary
Chapter 2. Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820–1860
Overview of the Antebellum Period
Health Reformers
Muscular Christianity
Women and Physical Activity
Rural Sporting Practices
Rise of Agricultural and Sporting Journalism
Sporting Practices of the Middle and Upper Classes
Public Spaces for Health and Sport
Sporting Pastimes of African Americans and Native Americans
Immigrants and Sporting Cultures
Summary
Chapter 3. Rise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1850–1870
Concept of Modern Sport
Subcommunities and the Growth of Modern Sport
Sporting Fraternity
Growth of Sports Clubs and Advancing Rational Recreation
Growth of American Team Sport and Competition
Rise of Intercollegiate Sport
The Civil War and Sporting Experiences
Summary
Chapter 4. New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age,
1870–1890
Sport and Social Stratification
Maintaining Ethnic Forms of Leisure
Development of an Intercollegiate Sporting Culture
Male Sporting Culture
Business of Sport
Gendered Sport, Class, and Social Roles
Regulation of Sport: Amateurism Versus Professionalism
Summary
Chapter 5. American Sport and Social Change During the Early Progressive
Era, 1890–1900
Social Reformers of the Progressive Era
Play and Games in American Ideology
Recreational Spaces
Back-to-Nature Movement
Ethnic Groups
Body Culture
Sport and Technology
Modern Olympic Games
Summary
Chapter 6. Sport as Symbol: Acculturation and Imperialism, 1900–1920
Sport, Ethnicity, and the Quest for Social Mobility
Assimilation of Disparate Groups in American Society
Challenging Gender Boundaries
Resistance to Social Reform
Sport and Colonialism
Sport During World War I
Summary
Chapter 7. Sport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920–1950
War, Depression, and the Shaping of America
Social Change and the Spread of Sport
Heroes in the Golden Age
Media and the Commercialization of Sport
Summary
Chapter 8. Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site,
1950–1980
Sport in the Cold War
Evolution of the Sport–Media Relationship
Coverage of Alternative Heroes
Professional Sport and Labor Relations
Sport and the Civil Rights Movement
Sport, Narcissism, and the Existential Search for Self
Scientific Advancements and the Growth of Sport
Summary
Chapter 9. Globalized Sport, 1980–2000
Corporate Sporting Culture
Drawing Fans to Baseball
Michael Jordan and the Growth of Professional Basketball
Intercollegiate Sport and the NCAA
Women and Sport
Drug and Body Abuse Among Athletes
Violence in Sport
Discrimination at the End of the Twentieth Century
Individuality and Sport Icons
Alternative Sports
Summary
Chapter 10. Sport in the Early Twenty-First Century, 2000–2020
Business of Professional Sports Teams
Intercollegiate Sport and Conference Changes
Title IX and Sport Leadership
Women’s Professional Teams and Endorsements
Modern Olympic Challenges and Stars
Sporting Crises
Traumatic Brain Injury
Covid-19 Virus Pandemic
X Games and Alternative Sports
Sports Across the Populace
Rise of the Runner
The Future of Sport
Sport in the Age of the Global Pandemic
Summary