Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Sport, Culture, and Society
Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Sport, Culture, and Society
ISBN: 978-1-68226-059-3
Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
New York sportswriters also wield national influence and have have done much to connect sports to larger social and cultural issues, and the vitality and distinctiveness of New York’s street games, its ethnic institutions, and its sports-centered restaurants and drinking establishments all contribute to the city’s uniqueness.
New York Sports collects the work of fourteen leading sport historians providing new insight into the social and cultural history of America’s leading metropolis and of the United States. These writers address the topics of changing conceptions of manhood and violence, leisure and social class, urban night life and entertainment, women and athletics, ethnicity and assimilation, and more.