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Description

Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. What do these seemingly disparate themes have in common? They each comprise a facet of sporting experiences in the western hemisphere that took place between the 1890s and the 1990s. This collection offers new insights on the role of sport in defining local, regional, national, and international cultures in the western hemisphere. The essays offer historical perspectives on the power of sport to create common ground in modern societies while simultaneously exploring how it serves to mark cultural boundaries and reinforce cultural identities. From national pastimes to ethnic traditions, from class sensibilities to racial ideologies, Sport in the Americas presents novel contributions that examine both the singular and manifold patterns of culture that sport animates. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author Biography:

Mark Dyreson is a Professor of Kinesiology and History at the Pennsylvania State University, USA; the Director of Research and Educational Programs at the Penn State Center for the Study of Sport in Society; the Managing Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport; a former President of the North American Society for Sport History; and a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology.
Release date NZ
May 12th, 2020
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributor
  • Edited by Mark Dyreson
Pages
114
ISBN-13
9780367531553
Product ID
33344849

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