S. W. Pope - Sports and History: Patriotic Games : Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926 read online ebook DJV
9780195091335 0195091337 In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these years, basketball wasinvented, football became a mass spectator event, and baseball soared to its status as the "national pasttime." Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines. Institutionalized sport became a trans- class mechanism forpackaging power and society in preferred ways--it popularized an interlocking set of cultural ideas about America's quest for national greatness. Nowhere was this more evident than the intimate connection established between sport and national holiday celebrations. As Pope reveals, Thanksgivingsports influenced the holiday's evolution from a religious occasion to a secular one. On the Fourth of July, sporting events infused patriotic rituals with sentiments that emphasized class conciliation and ethnic assimilation. In a time of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecedentedimmigration, the rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the shaping of America's national identity., In this book, S. W. Pope examines the rise of America's sporting culture in the years between 1876 and 1926. His focus offers a unique look at the formation of American attitudes toward work, leisure, class, assimilation, and national image., This study of sporting traditions in the American imagination, from 1876 to 1926 is aimed at sports historians and those interested in American history and cultural studies.
9780195091335 0195091337 In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these years, basketball wasinvented, football became a mass spectator event, and baseball soared to its status as the "national pasttime." Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines. Institutionalized sport became a trans- class mechanism forpackaging power and society in preferred ways--it popularized an interlocking set of cultural ideas about America's quest for national greatness. Nowhere was this more evident than the intimate connection established between sport and national holiday celebrations. As Pope reveals, Thanksgivingsports influenced the holiday's evolution from a religious occasion to a secular one. On the Fourth of July, sporting events infused patriotic rituals with sentiments that emphasized class conciliation and ethnic assimilation. In a time of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecedentedimmigration, the rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the shaping of America's national identity., In this book, S. W. Pope examines the rise of America's sporting culture in the years between 1876 and 1926. His focus offers a unique look at the formation of American attitudes toward work, leisure, class, assimilation, and national image., This study of sporting traditions in the American imagination, from 1876 to 1926 is aimed at sports historians and those interested in American history and cultural studies.