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They will have their game : sporting culture and the making of the early American republic /

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 ...

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Kenneth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the meaning of sport
  • The rise of genteel sport
  • A revolution in sporting culture
  • Sport reborn
  • Profit and prestige
  • A mass sporting industry
  • Sporting cultures
  • Epilogue : change and persistence.