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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.
First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of
the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this
collection of essays brings together the previously discrete
perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport.
Using feminist ideas to explore the role of sport in women's lives,
From Fair Sex to Feminism is a central text in the study of sport,
gender and the body.
First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of
the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this
collection of essays brings together the previously discrete
perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport.
Using feminist ideas to explore the role of sport in women's lives,
From Fair Sex to Feminism is a central text in the study of sport,
gender and the body.
Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans
throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of
sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world
sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so
much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football
for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in
popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North
American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and
pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in
basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported
and now exported to and from North America, provides some better
examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new
kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather
limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus,
rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of
some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of
Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of
passport to many places that make up our global sporting
environment.
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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