American Sports - Softcover

Rader, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130801127 ISBN 13: 9780130801128

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and is coeditor of the Sport and Society Series of the University of Illinois Press.  He has recently authored the third edition of Baseball: A History of America’s Game (2008), the second edition of American Ways: A History of American Cultures, 2 vols. (2006), and has had articles appear in The Journal of American History, Western History Quarterly, American Quarterly, Pacific Historical Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Sport History. Married with two adult children and three grandchildren, he continues to be an avid tennis player.   

From the Back Cover

The Fifth Edition of this widely acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the meanings of sports in historical contexts and the historical relationship between sports and such social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender and region as well as the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130801127
• ISBN 13: 9780130801128
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 344