City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Sport and Society) - Tapa blanda

Riess, Steven A.

 
9780252062162: City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Sport and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0252062167 ISBN 13: 9780252062162
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1991

Sinopsis

Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.

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Acerca del autor

Steven A. Riess is a former professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University and former editor of the Journal of Sport History. He is the author of Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Eraand editor of The American Sporting Experience: A Historical Anthology of Sport in America.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1991
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252062167
ISBN 13 
9780252062162
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
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9780252015731: City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Sport and Society)

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ISBN 10:  0252015738 ISBN 13:  9780252015731
Editorial: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1989
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