The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States (eBook, PDF)

Cathedrals of Sport
Redaktion: Dyreson, Mark; Trumpbour, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers original interpretations of the 'built environments' that shape sport in U.S. society. The volume details the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues that shaped the construction of the nation's most iconic modern buildings - the new American secular cathedrals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317989288
• Artikelnr.: 58397503

Autorenporträt

Mark Dyreson is an associate professor of kinesiology and an affiliate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. He has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters and several books including Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience (University of Illinois Press, 1998), Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance: America at the Olympics (Routledge, 2008), and, with J.A. Mangan, Sport and American Society: Insularity, Exceptionalism and 'Imperialism' (Routledge, 2007). Robert Trumpbour is assistant professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College. He is the author of The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction (Syracuse University Press, 2007). He has written in and has been invited to speak at a variety of venues, including an invitation to Harvard Law School, on the politics of ballpark construction. Trumpbour is active in several organizations, including AEJMC, MAPACA, NASSH, and SABR.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue - Cathedrals of Sport: Mapping New Territories Mark Dyreson 2.
Setting the Scene - Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Practice: When
Americans Really Built Programmes to Foster Healthy Lifestyles, 1918-1940
Roberta J. Park 3. Far More Than Commercialism: Stadium Building from
Harvard's Innovations to Stanford's 'Dirt Bowl' Ronald A. Smith 4. If We
Build It Will They Come? The Plans for a National Stadium and American
Olympic Desires Mark Dyreson 5. 'Ivy-Coloured Glasses': The Myth of Wrigley
Field Gregg Twietmeyer 6. Stadiums, Boosters, Politicians and Major League
Baseball's Reluctance to Expand: An Exploration of Post-Second World War US
Trends Michael Lomax 7. From 'The Finest Ballpark in America' to 'The Jewel
of the Waterfront': The Construction of San Francisco's Major League
Baseball Stadiums Maureen M. Smith 8. If They Built It? Stadium Dreams and
Rustbelt Realities in Cleveland Philip Suchma 9. Civil Rights and Sports
Landmarks: Discrimination, Jobs and Activism in the Construction of
Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium Robert Trumpbour 10. Epilogue -
Cathedrals of Sport: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future Robert
Trumpbour