World Famous Comics: American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
By: Benjamin Rader Publisher: Prentice Hall Binding: Paperback Label: Prentice Hall Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 550 Publication Date: October 01, 1989
Product Description: The revised edition of this widely-acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the historical relationship between sports and such major social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender, region and the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.