For courses in American Sport History and History of Sport.
Completely updated and revised, this text sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. The Fifth Edition of this highly-acclaimed text offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, this text considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a fan can bind diverse groups together. This text also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.
- ISBN10 0130977500
- ISBN13 9780130977502
- Publish Date 9 July 2003 (first published 8 December 1982)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 29 May 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English