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.
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Guides the reader to reflect on salient moments of international influence on American sport and its culture. For those unfamiliar with the sport history discipline, especially students and instructors broaching the field outside of established sport studies programs, DuBois's reflective meditation is a worthwhile edition for any first-year classroom. * Journal of Sport History *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 164 mm
Breite: 242 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-350-13471-3 (9781350134713)
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Daniel M. DuBois is Associate Professor of history and international studies at Saint Leo University, USA. His research and teaching focus on American history, international relations, and the history of sport. He has written for the Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, the Journal of Sport History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport. He is the co-editor (with Thomas Zeiler) of A Companion to World War II.
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Saint Leo University, USA
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Part I: The Huddled Masses
Immigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in America
Basketball and Urban Space
Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing
American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement
America and the Modern Olympic Movement
Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games
The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris
The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair
Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London Games
Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games
Baseball and American Empire
Foreigners to Fans
Cannons in the Outfield
Baseball's World Tours
Conjuring the National Pastime
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe
Part II: In Service of the State
The Growing Business of Baseball
Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media
The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad
Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport
Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America
Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and Thirties
The Olympics and War
Olympic Growth in the Twenties and Thirties
Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
US Sport in World War II
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Part III: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete
Post-War Professional Sport in America
The NFL Sets the Edge
The Making of the NBA
Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after World War II
Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War
The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights
Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War
Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport
Muhammad Ali v The United States
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
