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The athletic crusade : sport and American cultural imperialism /

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gems, Gerald R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race, religion, and manifest destiny
  • China and the rejection of Christianity
  • Baseball and bushido in Japan
  • Sport and colonialism in the Philippines
  • Hawaii as a cultural crossroads of sport
  • Cuba and the rehabilitative qualities of sport
  • Sport and the restoration of pride in Puerto Rico
  • Sport and economic retaliation in the Dominican Republic
  • The outposts of empire
  • The globalization of sport.