دانلود کتاب American Sport in International History: The United States and the World since 1865

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Cover\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n1 The Huddled Masses\n Introduction\n Immigration and the Emergence of Modern Sport in America\n Basketball and Urban Space\n Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing\n American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement\n America and the Modern Olympic Movement\n Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games\n The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris\n The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World’s Fair\n Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry, and the 1908 London Games\n Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games\n Baseball and American Empire\n Foreigners to Fans\n Cannons in the Outfield\n Baseball’s World Tours\n Conjuring the National Pastime\n Notes\n Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe\n2 In Service of the State\n Introduction\n The Growing Business of Baseball\n Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media\n The Negro Leagues and Baseball’s Continued Growth Abroad\n Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport\n Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America\n Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist 1920s and 1930s\n The Olympics and War\n Olympic Growth in the 1920s and 1930s\n Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics\n US Sport in the Second World War\n Notes\n Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias\n3 The Dawn of the Activist Athlete\n Introduction\n Postwar Professional Sport in America\n The NFL Sets the Edge\n The Making of the NBA\n Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball’s Integration after the Second World War\n Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War\n The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights\n Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War\n Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport\n Muhammad Ali v. United States\n Cold War Competitions and the Arrival of the Activist Athlete\n Sport across the Iron Curtain\n Drugs, Sex, and Gender\n American Credibility, Mal Whitfield, and the 1968 Olympics\n Notes\n Athlete Spotlight #3: Althea Gibson\n4 New Frontiers in Player Empowerment\n Introduction\n Sport and the End of the Cold War\n Diplomacy and Sport in Cold War China\n US National Sport before and after the 1972 Munich Games\n Ice and Mortar\n Social Justice Takes Center Court\n Arthur Ashe, Apartheid, and the ATP\n Billie Jean King and Gender Boundaries in Sport\n Global Sport Capitalism\n MLB, Globalization, and the Making of the Free Agent\n The Doctor, Air Jordan, and the Global Rise of the NBA\n Notes\n Athlete Spotlight #4: Carl Lewis\n5 Into the Twenty-First Century\n Introduction\n The Highs and Lows of Global Sport Stardom\n The Tiger Effect\n “I’m Sorry You Don’t Believe in Miracles”\n US Professional Sport after the American Age\n Wither Baseball?\n From Yao to the Eurostep\n Global Football or American Fútbol?\n US National Sport in the Twenty-First Century\n The USWNT\n The Devil and the Goat\n Notes\n Athlete Spotlight #5: Michelle Kwan\nConclusion\nSelected Bibliography\nIndex