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  • Making the American Team

    Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience

    by Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the scores and highlights.Marky Dyreson delves into how our obsession with sport came into being with a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity

    by R. Scott Kretchmar, Mark Dyreson, Matt Llewellyn, John Gleaves ...
    History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity, Second Edition, seamlessly blends the historical and philosophical dimensions of the study of human movement. The text follows a chronology of human movement from our origins as hunter-gatherers to the present, offering philosophical and ethical analyses alongside explorations of cultural shifts that have emerged from different ethnic, racial, ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Black Mercuries

    African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

    by Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson, David K. Wiggins ...
    “An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history.”-Booklist, Starred Review, and a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of 2023The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games.In the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their race, and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

    Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history.This anthology adds to the growing corpus of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Olympic Aspirations

    Realised and Unrealised

    Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One section of the Forum was devoted to the impact of the Olympic Movement on China ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

    America at the Olympics

    by Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in order to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport in the Americas

    Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. What do these seemingly disparate themes have in common? They each comprise a facet of sporting ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Half Century of Super Bowls

    National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle

    Edited by Peter Hopsicker, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    In 2016, the Super Bowl, the climactic spectacle of American professional football, celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Super Bowl stands as the broadest ‘shared experience’ in American culture. As television ratings, cultural practices, and scholarly tomes reveal, more people participate in watching the Super Bowl than in any other common endeavour in the United States. The Super Bowl has become ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

    Cathedrals of Sport

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes literally shaped by their devotion to athletic competition. Curiously, given ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mapping an Empire of American Sport

    Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport and American Society

    Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the contributors outline the story of how American sport has contributed to a climate of insularity, exceptionalism ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • American National Pastimes - A History

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Jaime Schultz ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history.This collection ... Read more

    $59.99 USD