Pope, Steven W. (2007) Patriotic games: sporting traditions in the American imagination, 1876-1926. Sport and popular culture . University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. ISBN 9781572334984
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines. In a time of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecendented immigration, the rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the shaping of America's national identity.
| Additional Information: | In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines. In a time of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecendented immigration, the rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the shaping of America's national identity. |
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| Keywords: | sport, History of sport, United States of America, Patriotism, Identity |
| Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V230 American History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V320 Social History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V390 History by Topic not elsewhere classified |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > Lincoln School of Humanities |
| ID Code: | 2085 |
| Deposited On: | 02 Dec 2009 13:08 |
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