Daniel M. Dubois

American Sport in International History (eBook, ePUB)

The United States and the World since 1865

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. DuBois also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century.

Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapters study boxing, hockey, track and field and soccer alongside the 'big three' (basketball, baseball and American football) through a number of case studies to offer a novel interpretation of American sport history. Spanning early Native American sport, the export of baseball in the American empire, the role of basketball in the Cold War, the influence of immigrants and women in sports, and modern day sport culture, American Sport in International History asks what the role of sport has been and will be in a shifting international environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350134737
• Artikelnr.: 66208188

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. DuBois is Associate Professor of history and international studies at Saint Leo University, USA. His research and teaching focus on American history, international relations, and the history of sport. He has written for the Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, the Journal of Sport History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport. He is the co-editor (with Thomas Zeiler) of A Companion to World War II.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication List of Illustrations Part I: 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 Part II: 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 Twenties and Thirties The Olympics and War Olympic Growth in
the Twenties and Thirties Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
US Sport in World War II Notes Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson
Zaharias Part III: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete Post-War Professional
Sport in America The NFL Sets the Edge The Making of the NBA Jackie
Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after World War II
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 The United States
Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index