Sports in American history from colonization to globalization
Chapter 1. Sporting Experiences in Colonial America, 1400-1750 ; Native American Pastimes and Sports ; Influence of Religion on English Colonists ; Sport in American Colonies ; Summary -- Chapter 2. Sport and Pastimes in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period, 1750-1820 ; 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 ; Frontier and Backcountry Sport ; Women's Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Early National Period ; Native American Sport ; Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War ; Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns ; Summary -- Chapter 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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 9. Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950-1980 ; Sport in the Cold War ; Evolution of the Sport-Media Relationship ; Incorporation 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 10. 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 11. Sport in the Early Twenty-First Century, 2000-2015 ; 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 ; X Games and Alternative Sports ; Youth Sports ; Rise of the Runner ; The Future of Sport ; Summary
E-Book, English, 2017
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 2017