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A brief history of American sports /

Title:
A brief history of American sports /
Author:
Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
Preface -- Part 1: America Becomes A Sporting Nation: -- Colonists at play: -- Virgin land -- English sports -- Virginia ethic -- New England way -- Middle colonies -- Sports and the new nation -- Saints and their bodies: sport through 1860: -- Adams family -- Victorian culture and the attack on traditional sports -- Beginnings of modern American sports -- Muscular Christians and brawny Brahmins -- Vigorous, manly, out-of-door sports: the Gilded Age: -- Healthful and invigorating sports -- Sport and society -- Rise of mass sports: boxing and baseball -- Elite sports -- Strenuous life -- Part 2: Sport And Its Discontents: -- Sports with a mission: football and basketball: -- Walter Camp and the bureaucratization of the strenuous life -- Football, alumni, and the control of the university -- Progressives, play, and basketball -- World War I: great unifier -- Play, business, and space: sports and the public sphere: -- Home teams -- Sports heroes and mass culture -- Gender and sport -- Racial integration -- Money, television, drugs, and the win: dilemmas of modern sports: -- Amateur ideals and sporting reality -- Twentieth-century amateurism -- Impact of television -- Historical roots of the drug problem in sports -- Sports for a new century: -- Explosion of sports -- Steroid era -- Money and sport -- Level playing field -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
GV583 .G673 2013 – Available