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American Sport in International History : The United States and the World Since 1865 / Daniel M. DuBois.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubois, D. M.
- Series:
- New approaches to international history
- New Approaches to International History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--United States--History.
- Sports.
- Sports--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, [2022]
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Huddled Masses
- Immigration and the Emergence of Modern Sport in America
- Basketball and Urban Space
- Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing
- American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement
- America and the Modern Olympic Movement
- Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games
- The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris
- The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair
- Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry, and the 1908 London Games
- Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games
- Baseball and American Empire
- Foreigners to Fans
- Cannons in the Outfield
- Baseball's World Tours
- Conjuring the National Pastime
- Notes
- Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe
- 2 In Service of the State
- The Growing Business of Baseball
- Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media
- The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad
- Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport
- Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America
- Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist 1920s and 1930s
- The Olympics and War
- Olympic Growth in the 1920s and 1930s
- Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- US Sport in the Second World War
- Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 3 The Dawn of the Activist Athlete
- Postwar Professional Sport in America
- The NFL Sets the Edge
- The Making of the NBA
- Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after the Second World War
- Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War
- The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights
- Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War
- Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport
- Muhammad Ali v. United States
- Cold War Competitions and the Arrival of the Activist Athlete
- Sport across the Iron Curtain
- Drugs, Sex, and Gender
- American Credibility, Mal Whitfield, and the 1968 Olympics
- Athlete Spotlight #3: Althea Gibson
- 4 New Frontiers in Player Empowerment
- Sport and the End of the Cold War
- Diplomacy and Sport in Cold War China
- US National Sport before and after the 1972 Munich Games
- Ice and Mortar
- Social Justice Takes Center Court
- Arthur Ashe, Apartheid, and the ATP
- Billie Jean King and Gender Boundaries in Sport
- Global Sport Capitalism
- MLB, Globalization, and the Making of the Free Agent
- The Doctor, Air Jordan, and the Global Rise of the NBA
- Athlete Spotlight #4: Carl Lewis
- 5 Into the Twenty-First Century
- The Highs and Lows of Global Sport Stardom
- The Tiger Effect
- "I'm Sorry You Don't Believe in Miracles"
- US Professional Sport after the American Age
- Wither Baseball?
- From Yao to the Eurostep
- Global Football or American Fútbol?
- Notes:
- US National Sport in the Twenty-First Century
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Lader Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DuBois, Daniel M. American Sport in International History
- ISBN:
- 9781350134737
- 1350134732
- 9781350140738
- 1350140732
- 9781350134720
- 1350134724
- Publisher Number:
- 99992942068
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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