wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865--1913
ISBN: 9780815609858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. Riess narrates... Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the ... |
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191,36 zł |
Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
ISBN: 9780815637417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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512,35 zł |
Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
ISBN: 9780815637271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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274,21 zł |
City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
ISBN: 9780252062162 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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115,37 zł |
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780765617064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs.
Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy iss...
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1705,23 zł |
Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780252067754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility.
Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball ...
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99,63 zł |
The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
ISBN: 9780252076152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines Chicago's long and glorious history of recreational and competitive sport, and as the home of the finest sporting events and most loyal fans in the United States. This indispensable collection surveys the essential events and main teams in the city's sports history--the Bears, the Cubs, the White Sox, the Black Hawks, and the Bulls--as well as great Chicago sports legends Red Grange, Michael Jordan, and others. The authors also examine more specialized sports such as racing, cycling, and women's baseball. In addition to examining the highlights of Chicago sport, "The... This book examines Chicago's long and glorious history of recreational and competitive sport, and as the home of the finest sporting events and mos... |
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104,88 zł |
A Companion to American Sport History
ISBN: 9780470656129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history.
A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarshi... |
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966,25 zł |
Sports and the American Jew: Steven A. Riess
ISBN: 9780815627616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of nine essays that delve into the relationship between Jewish Americans and the culture of sports. The book analyzes assimilation and acculturation, discrimination, gender, social class, and the building of a Jewish American community.
A collection of nine essays that delve into the relationship between Jewish Americans and the culture of sports. The book analyzes assimilation and ac...
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133,69 zł |
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781350461055 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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134,79 zł |
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781350024052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global cultural force and one of the deepest ways in which individual nations express their myths, beliefs, values, traditions and realities. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents...
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by ec...
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419,75 zł |