Transpacific Field of Dreams : How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War /
"Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Pacific crossings
- 2. Colonial baseball
- 3. Leagues of their own
- 4. The business of baseball
- 5. Empires of fun and games
- 6. Spartan leagues
- 7. A field of new dreams
- 8. The search for postwar order.