American Sport in International History

The United States and the World since 1865

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvDaniel M. DuBois,USA) DuBois, Daniel M. (Saint Leo University,Daniel M DuBois,Thomas Zeiler

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This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. DuBois also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century. Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapters study boxing, hockey, track and field and soccer alongside the ‘big three’ (basketball, baseball and American football) through a number of case studies to offer a novel interpretation of American sport history. Spanning early Native American sport, the export of baseball in the American empire, the role of basketball in the Cold War, the influence of immigrants and women in sports, and modern day sport culture, American Sport in International History asks what the role of sport has been and will be in a shifting international environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-12
Mått158 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to International History
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350134706

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DedicationList of IllustrationsPart I: The Huddled MassesImmigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in AmericaBasketball and Urban SpaceJack Johnson and the Global Business of BoxingAmerican Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport MovementAmerica and the Modern Olympic MovementPierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic GamesThe 1900 Olympic Games in ParisThe 1904 Games and the St. Louis World’s FairOlympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London GamesMelting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm GamesBaseball and American EmpireForeigners to FansCannons in the OutfieldBaseball’s World ToursConjuring the National PastimeNotesAthlete Spotlight #1: Jim ThorpePart II: In Service of the StateThe Growing Business of BaseballBabe Ruth and the New Sport MediaThe Negro Leagues and Baseball’s Continued Growth AbroadProfessionalization in Other Corners of US SportProfessional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar AmericaRe-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and ThirtiesThe Olympics and WarOlympic Growth in the Twenties and ThirtiesHitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin OlympicsUS Sport in World War IINotesAthlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson ZahariasPart III: The Dawn of the Activist AthletePost-War Professional Sport in AmericaThe NFL Sets the EdgeThe Making of the NBAJackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball’s Integration after World War IISport Diplomacy and the Cold WarThe Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil RightsWilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold WarBill Russell and the Transnational Power of SportMuhammad Ali v The United StatesConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex