“Sport in Industrial America could serve well as a textbook for sport studies or a supplement for courses in US history for the period the book covers. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)
Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 2nd Edition presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s highly acclaimed study of the development of sports during one of the most transformational times in American history. Incorporating a wealth of updated material, Riess explores how American sport blossomed in the late nineteenth century. The widespread acceptance by the middle class of a positive sports creed justified sport as promoting health, morality, and character. Detailed chapters examine urbanization and the influence of technological innovation, including transportation; social class; ethnicity and race; sport and educational institutions; the rise of professional sports; and an entirely new concluding chapter on American sport in the international arena. The second edition of Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 2nd Edition, offers a wealth of insights into the origins and evolution of American sport while unfurling a pageant of celebrities, players, spectators, and entrepreneurs—all engaged in the drama that is American sport.
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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 2nd Edition presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s highly acclaimed study of the development of sports during one of the most transformational times in American history. Incorporating a wealth of updated material, Riess explores how American sport blossomed in the late nineteenth century. The widespread acceptance by the middle class of a positive sports creed justified sport as promoting health, morality, and character. Detailed chapters examine urbanization and the influence of technological innovation, including transportation; social class; ethnicity and race; sport and educational institutions; the rise of professional sports; and an entirely new concluding chapter on American sport in the international arena. The second edition of Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 2nd Edition, offers a wealth of insights into the origins and evolution of American sport while unfurling a pageant of celebrities, players, spectators, and entrepreneurs―all engaged in the drama that is American sport.
About the Author
Steven A. Riess is Bernard Brommel Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author or editor of eleven books and the former editor of The Journal of Sport History.
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