New Orleans Sports : Playing Hard in the Big Easy /
"New Orleans was and is a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city's culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of al...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A city on wheels: the bicycle era in New Orleans / Dale A. Somers
- "He's a good rider because of where he comes from": horseracing, slavery, and haunting / Katherine C. Mooney
- Fighting to the finish: the ill-fated Andy Bowen and the longest boxing match in history / Randy Roberts
- In the land of dreamy dreams: tennis and the nexus of class and race in New Orleans, 1876-1976 / Thomas Aiello
- The New Orleans Athletic Club: pantheon of sport and society on Rampart Street / Richard V. McGehee
- The development of Tulane Stadium: from rise to raze / Chad S. Seifried, Kasey Britt, Samantha Gonzales, and Alexa Webb
- New Orleans becomes a big league city: the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Michael S. Martin
- Professional sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the economic redevelopment of New Orleans: revisited / Robert A. Baade, Victor A. Matheson, and Callan N. Hendershott
- The Sugar Bowl: manhood, race, and southern womanhood in New Orleans, 1935-1965 / Stephen H. Norwood
- "No room for such a club in our organization": the Southern Association of the Amateur Athletic Union's long fight for white supremacy in New Orleans and the South / Mark Dyreson
- Called off, on account of darkness: the AAU, the AFL, and civic development in Jim Crow New Orleans / Gregory L. Richard and Thomas Aiello
- 'In spite of ourselves' they were the pride of New Orleans: the role of race, gender, and the media in the demise of the Crescent City's women's professional basketball franchise, 1979-1981 / Stacy Lynn Tanner
- When the Saints went marching in: social identity in the world champion New Orleans Saints football team and its impact on their host city / Elizabeth Booksh Burns.