Format:
1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
ISBN:
9781501714214
Content:
In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Meaning of Sport -- Part One: The Colonial Period -- 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport -- 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture -- Part Two: The Early National Period -- 3. Sport Reborn -- 4. Prestige or Profit -- Part Three: The Antebellum Period -- 5. A Mass Sporting Industry -- 6. Sporting Cultures -- Epilogue: Change and Persistence -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501705496
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501705496
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Sport
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
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