Making The American Team: Sport, Culture, And The Olympic Experience

By Mark Dyreson

Mark Dyreson locates the invasion of sport at the heart of American culture at the turn of the century. It was then that social reformers and political leaders believed that sport could revitalize...

Sport And American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

By MARK, J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson, Mark Dyreson: J, Dyreson J.

Prologue: The Paradoxes Of American Insularity, Exceptionalism And Imperialism / Mark Dyreson -- Benevolent America: Rural Women, Physical Recreation, Sport And Health Reform In Ante-bellum New Eng...

Crafting Patriotism For Global Dominance: America At The Olympics

By MARK, Mark Dyreson, Dyreson, Mark Dyreson, Mark, Dyreson

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....

Mapping An Empire Of American Sport: Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation And Resistance

By Mark Dyreson, Dyreson, Mark [Editor]; Mangan, J.A. [Editor]; Park, Roberta J. [Editor];

American National Pastimes: A History

By Jaime Schultz, Mark Dyreson

Preface : American National Pastimes / Mark Dyerson And Jaime Schultz -- American National Pastimes : The Genealogy Of An Idea / Mark Dyerson -- The Cyclical History Of Horse Racing : The Usa's Old...

Rooting For The Home Team

By Amy Bass, David K. Wiggins, Susan Cahn, Michael Ezra, Carlo Rotella, Mike Tanier, Michael Oriard, Elliott J. Gorn, Jaime Schultz, Catherine M. Lewis, Mark Dyreson, Daniel A. Nathan, David W. Zang, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Shelley Lucas

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los An...

Rooting For The Home Team

By Amy Bass, David K. Wiggins, Susan Cahn, Michael Ezra, Carlo Rotella, Mike Tanier, Michael Oriard, Elliott J. Gorn, Jaime Schultz, Catherine M. Lewis, Mark Dyreson, Daniel A. Nathan, David W. Zang, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Shelley Lucas

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los An...

The Rise Of Stadiums In The Modern United States: Cathedrals Of Sport

By Mark Dyreson, Dyreson, Robert (Edt), Mark (Edt)/ Trumpbour, Dyreson, Mark (Edt)/ Trumpbour, Robert (Edt)

This book offers original interpretations of the 'built environments' that shape sport in U.S. society. The volume details the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues that shaped t...

Olympic Aspirations

By J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

TUNED FOR MURDER :THE AVENGER BK9

By Amy Bass, David K. Wiggins, Susan Cahn, Michael Ezra, Robeson, Carlo Rotella, Mike Tanier, Michael Oriard, Elliott J. Gorn, Kenneth, Jaime Schultz, Catherine M. Lewis, Mark Dyreson, Daniel A. Nathan, David W. Zang, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Shelley Lucas

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los An...