A Companion to American Sport History

A Companion to American Sport History presents a
collection of original essays that represent the first
comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field
of American sport history.

• Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship
  relating to the academic history of American sport

• Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working
  in the field of American sport history

• Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial
  times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,
  football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track
  and field

• Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,
  technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports
  biography

Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Autorentext

Steven A. Riess is the Bernard Brommel Research Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University. His books include City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (1989), Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, Revised Edition (1999), and The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913 (2011), and Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Zusammenfassung

A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history.

• Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport
• Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history
• Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field
• Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography
  Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Steven A. Riess

Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11

1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport
in America through 1865 13

James C. Schneider

2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865-1920
32

Gerald R. Gems

3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920-1960
60

Ryan Swanson

4 Sport Since the 1960s 84

Russ Crawford

Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107

5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and
American Sport 109

Mark Dyreson

6 Urbanization and American Sport 130

Joseph C. Bigott

Part III Major Team Sports 153

7 Baseball Before 1920 155

Leslie Heaphy

8 Baseball Since 1920 177

Rebecca T. Alpert

9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as
Cultural History 202

Kurt Edward Kemper

10 Professional Football 221

Anthony Santoro

11 Basketball 246

Aram Goudsouzian

Part IV Major Individual Sports 269

12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271

Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith

13 Golf and Tennis 292

Robert Pruter

14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the
Checkered Flag 313

David N. Lucsko

15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and
Prospects 334

Alan S. Katchen

Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357

16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography
359

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A
Historiography 379

Robert K. Barney

Part VI Sport and Social History 403

18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405

Gerald R. Gems

19 The African American Athlete 434

Louis Moore

20 Class and Sport 454

Steven A. Riess

21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in
American Sport 479

Brian M. Ingrassia

22 Women in American Sport History 500

Linda J. Borish

Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521

23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of
American Sports Business History 523

J. Andrew Ross

24 Sport and the Media 552

James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr

25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577

Robert C. Trumpbour

Part VIII Sport and Culture 599

26 Sport and American Religion 601

Richard Kimball

27 Not Always "Natural": A Historiography of Sport
in American Culture 615

Kevin B. Witherspoon

28 Sports Biographies 634

Maureen Smith

Index 656