Sports in American history : from colonization to globalization / Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish, Gertrud Pfister. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

CHAPTER 1. Sporting Experiences in Early America, 1400-1820 -- Native American Pastimes and Sports -- Influence of Religion on English Colonists -- Sport in American Colonies -- The Great Awakening and the Place of Sport -- Consumerism and Changing Patterns of Colonial Life -- The Enlightenment in America and Ideas of Sport and the Body -- Sport for Exercise Promoted in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period -- Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War -- Women's Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Republican Motherhood -- Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns -- Summary --

CHAPTER 2. Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820-1860 -- Overview of the Antebellum Period -- Health Reformers -- Muscular Christianity -- Women and Physical Activity -- Rural Sporting Practices -- Rise of Agricultural and Sporting Journalism -- Sporting Practices of the Middle and Upper Classes -- Public Spaces for Health and Sport -- Sporting Pastimes of African Americans and Native Americans -- Immigrants and Sporting Cultures -- Summary --

CHAPTER 3. Rise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1850-1870 -- Concept of Modern Sport -- Subcommunities and the Growth of Modern Sport -- Sporting Fraternity -- Growth of Sports Clubs and Advancing Rational Recreation -- Growth of American Team Sport and Competition -- Rise of Intercollegiate Sport -- The Civil War and Sporting Experiences -- Summary --

CHAPTER 4. New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age, 1870-1890 -- Sport and Social Stratification -- Maintaining Ethnic Forms of Leisure -- Development of an Intercollegiate Sporting Culture -- Male Sporting Culture -- Business of Sport -- Gendered Sport, Class, and Social Roles -- Regulation of Sport: Amateurism Versus Professionalism -- Summary --

CHAPTER 5. American Sport and Social Change During the Early Progressive Era, 1890-1900 -- Social Reformers of the Progressive Era -- Play and Games in American Ideology -- Recreational Spaces -- Back-to-Nature Movement -- Ethnic Groups -- Body Culture -- Sport and Technology -- Modern Olympic Games -- Summary --

CHAPTER 6. Sport as Symbol: Acculturation and Imperialism, 1900-1920 -- Sport, Ethnicity, and the Quest for Social Mobility -- Assimilation of Disparate Groups in American Society -- Challenging Gender Boundaries -- Resistance to Social Reform -- Sport and Colonialism -- Sport During World War I -- Summary --

CHAPTER 7. Sport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920-1950 -- War, Depression, and the Shaping of America -- Social Change and the Spread of Sport -- Heroes in the Golden Age -- Media and the Commercialization of Sport -- Summary --

CHAPTER 8. Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950-1980 -- Sport in the Cold War -- Evolution of the Sport-Media Relationship -- Coverage of Alternative Heroes -- Professional Sport and Labor Relations -- Sport and the Civil Rights Movement -- Sport, Narcissism, and the Existential Search for Self -- Scientific Advancements and the Growth of Sport -- Summary --

CHAPTER 9. Globalized Sport, 1980-2000 -- Corporate Sporting Culture -- Drawing Fans to Baseball -- Michael Jordan and the Growth of Professional Basketball -- Intercollegiate Sport and the NCAA -- Women and Sport -- Drug and Body Abuse Among Athletes -- Violence in Sport -- Discrimination at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Individuality and Sport Icons -- Alternative Sports -- Summary --

CHAPTER 10. Sport in the Early Twenty-First Century, 2000-2020 -- Business of Professional Sports Teams -- Intercollegiate Sport and Conference Changes -- Title IX and Sport Leadership -- Women's Professional Teams and Endorsements -- Modern Olympic Challenges and Stars -- Sporting Crises -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Covid-19 Virus Pandemic -- X Games and Alternative Sports -- Sports Across the Populace -- Rise of the Runner -- The Future of Sport -- Sport in the Age of the Global Pandemic -- Summary.

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