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 ...

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 18th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Sports > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Sports > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Civilization.
Popular culture.
Sports > Social aspects.
United States > Civilization > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1783-1865.
United States.
Politicized entertainment, early america, theater history, business history, political and economic power of wealth,.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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