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Sport in the Americas - Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives (Paperback)
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Sport in the Americas - Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
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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 Sao 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.
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