Patriotic games: sporting traditions in the american imagination, 1876-1926
Auteur :
Pope, S. W.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195091335
Date de publication :
27 mars 1997
Dimensions :
24,1 x 16,2 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
551 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Between the 1880s and the 1920s sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. Pope examines how this American sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines, and became strongly linked with American patriotism.