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Mapping an Empire of American Sport - Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance (Paperback)
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Mapping an Empire of American Sport - Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport
as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power,
especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim,
but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern
sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball,
basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the
U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe's masses in a long series
of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in
American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion.
Sport also contributed to American efforts to assimilate immigrant
populations. Even in American games such as baseball and football,
sport has also served as an agent of resistance to American
imperial designs among the nations of the Western hemisphere and
the Pacific Rim. As the twenty-first century begins, sport
continues to shape American visions of a global empire as well as
framing resistance to American imperial designs. Mapping an Empire
of American Sport chronicles the dynamic tensions in the role of
sport as an element in both the expansion of and the resistance to
American power, and in sport's dual role as an instrument for
assimilation and adaptation. This book was published as a special
issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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