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American National Pastimes - A History (Paperback)
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American National Pastimes - A History (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
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Total price: R1,272
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When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the
British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as
finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From
the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the
twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential
ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This
collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of
American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the
idea of national pastimes-of a nation symbolized by its sports.
These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports
to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize
fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and
football more than two centuries later. These essays also
investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns
and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national
pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American
National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to
define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published
as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of
Sport.
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