TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gems, Gerald R.
AU  - Borish, Linda J.;Pfister, Gertrud
TI  - Sports in American history: from colonization to globalization 
SN  - 9780736056212
AV  - GV 583 .G46 2008 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Illinois
PB  - Human Kinetcs
KW  - SPORTS -- HISTORY -- UNITED STATES
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. Sporting Experiences in Colonial America, 1400-1750; Chapter 2. Sports and Pastimes in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period, 1750-1820; Chapter 3. Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820-1860; Chapter 4. Rise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1840-1870; Chapter 5. New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age, 1870-1890; Chapter 6. American Sport and Social Change During the Progressive Era, 1890-1920; Chapter 7. Sport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920-1950; Chapter 8. Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950-1980; Chapter 9. Globalized Sport, 1980 - Present
N2  - Examines how women, minorities and ethnic and religious groups have influenced US sporting culture. This book gives students a broader knowledge of the complexities of sport, health and play in the American experience and how historical factors, such as gender, ethnicity, race and religion, provide an understanding of sports in American history
ER  -