The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads of discussion from politics and economics to the sporting arena.
The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads ...
The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as a site for erecting memorials to American patriotism and developing mythologies of American exceptionalism.
The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as ...
This book offers original interpretations of the 'built environments' that shape sport in US society. It details the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues that shaped the construction of the nation's most iconic modern buildings-the new American secular cathedrals.
This book offers original interpretations of the 'built environments' that shape sport in US society. It details the complex political, economic, soci...
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan...
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizin...
The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads of discussion from politics and economics to the sporting arena.
The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads ...
When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes-of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging...
When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations th...
In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in order to signal American exceptionalism to the closing ceremonies where the U.S. media trumpet that their team owes its medals not to superior athleticism but to the nation's peerless social and political systems,...
In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by th...
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe's masses in a long series of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion. Sport...
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the...
