Gerald R Gems

The Athletic Crusade

Sport and American Cultural Imperialism

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Produktbeschreibung

Gerald R. Gems is a professor of health and physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values and Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780803245334
• ISBN-10: 0803245335
• Artikelnr.: 35350405

Autorenporträt

Gerald R. Gems is a professor of health and physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values and Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Race, Religion, and Manifest Destiny
2. China and the Rejection of Christianity
3. Baseball and Bushido in Japan
4. Sport and Colonialism int he Philippines
5. Hawaii as a Cultural Crossroads of Sport
6. Cuba and Rehabilitative Qualities of Sport
7. Sport and the Restoriation of Pride in Puerto Rico
8. Sport and Economic Retaliation in the Dominican Republic
9. The Outposts of Empire
10. The Globalization of Sport
 
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