A Companion to American Sport History

Content: Notes on Contributors viii   Introduction 1  Steven A. Riess    Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11    1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 13  James C. Schneider    2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865   1920 32  Gerald R. Gems    3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920   1960 60  Ryan Swanson    4 Sport Since the 1960s 84  Russ Crawford    Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107    5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport 109  Mark Dyreson    6 Urbanization and American Sport 130  Joseph C. Bigott    Part III Major Team Sports 153    7 Baseball Before 1920 155  Leslie Heaphy    8 Baseball Since 1920 177  Rebecca T. Alpert    9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History 202  Kurt Edward Kemper    10 Professional Football 221  Anthony Santoro    11 Basketball 246  Aram Goudsouzian    Part IV Major Individual Sports 269    12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271  Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith    13 Golf and Tennis 292  Robert Pruter    14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag 313  David N. Lucsko    15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects 334  Alan S. Katchen    Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357    16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography 359  Nicholas Evan Sarantakes    17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography 379  Robert K. Barney    Part VI Sport and Social History 403    18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405  Gerald R. Gems    19 The African American Athlete 434  Louis Moore    20 Class and Sport 454  Steven A. Riess    21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport 479  Brian M. Ingrassia    22 Women in American Sport History 500  Linda J. Borish    Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521    23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History 523  J. Andrew Ross    24 Sport and the Media 552  James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr    25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577  Robert C. Trumpbour    Part VIII Sport and Culture 599    26 Sport and American Religion 601  Richard Kimball    27 Not Always    Natural   : A Historiography of Sport in American Culture 615  Kevin B. Witherspoon    28 Sports Biographies 634  Maureen Smith    Index 656