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American sports from the age of folk games to the age of televised sports /

by Rader Benjamin G.

Synopsis

The Fifth Edition of this widely acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the meanings of sports in historical contexts and the historical relationship between sports and such social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender and region as well as the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2004
ISBN-13 9780130977502
ISBN-10 0130977500
Class Copyright
Publisher Prentice Hall
Subject SPORTS & RECREATION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 371
Shelf No. GW932