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Patriotic Games: Sporting Tradition in the American Imagination, 1876-1926 (Sport and Popular Culture)
Steven W. Pope
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Description for Patriotic Games: Sporting Tradition in the American Imagination, 1876-1926 (Sport and Popular Culture)
Paperback. Series: Sport and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Choice “Outstanding Academic Book” (1998)
“Nationalism and amateurism. While countless scholars have written on one or the other of these two important concepts, S.W. Pope has undertaken to explore the relationship between them. His subtle analysis on this relationship is but one of many highlights in this wonderfully insightful and multi-faceted book.” -Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
“Pope has done a masterful job of combining his reading from secondary sources with his own original research to give us a definitive account of the time when sports and national identity came to be connected. The clarity and specificity of ... Read more
Choice “Outstanding Academic Book” (1998)
“Nationalism and amateurism. While countless scholars have written on one or the other of these two important concepts, S.W. Pope has undertaken to explore the relationship between them. His subtle analysis on this relationship is but one of many highlights in this wonderfully insightful and multi-faceted book.” -Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
“Pope has done a masterful job of combining his reading from secondary sources with his own original research to give us a definitive account of the time when sports and national identity came to be connected. The clarity and specificity of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Series
Sport and Popular Culture
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572334984
SKU
V9781572334984
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Ref
99-3
About Steven W. Pope
S.W. Pope is senior lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Lincoln in Brayford, England. He is the editor of New American Sport History (1997) and of the University of Tennessee Press's Sport and Popular Culture series.
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