They Will Have Their Game : Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic /

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In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Kenneth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Popular culture > United States > History > 18th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History.
Sports & Games.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Politicized entertainment, early america, theater history, business history, political and economic power of wealth,.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Colonial Period
  • 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport
  • 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture
  • Part Two. The Early National Period
  • 3. Sport Reborn
  • 4. Prestige or Profit
  • Part Three. The Antebellum Period
  • 5. A Mass Sporting Industry
  • 6. Sporting Cultures
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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