Sport and American Society

Mark Dyreson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Pennsylvania State UniversityJ. A. Mangan is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde

• 1. Prologue James Mangan 2. Benevolent America: Rural women, physical recreation, sport and health reform in ante-bellum New England Linda Borish 3. Aggressive America: Media nationalism and the ‘War’ over Olympic pictures in sport’s 'golden age' Mark Dyreson 4. Insular America: The NBA began in Akron? The midwest conference in the 1930s Murray R. Nelson 5. Integrating America: Jackie Robinson, critical events and baseball black and white John Kelly 5. Exclusionary America: Jackie Robinson, decolonization and baseball not black and white John Kelly 6. Reformist America: ‘The oberlin experiment - The limits of Jack Scott’s ‘athletic revolution’ in post-1960s America Tim Elcombe 7. Community America: Who owns Wrigley Field? Holly Swyers 8. Exceptionalist America: American sports fans’ reaction to internationalization Sean Frederick Brown 9. Rejected America: Adolfo Luque, American interventionism and 'Cubanidad' Benjamin Eastman 10. Challenged America: China and America – women and sport, past, present and future Susan Brownell 11. Epilogue Mark Dyreson

"In Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity and 'Imperialism', editors Mark Dyreson and J. A. Mangan have assembled a strong selection of articles that explore how 'American sport contributes to historic and contemporary insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism' " Lane Demas