For Pride, Profit and Patriarchy
Gerald R. Gems
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Description for For Pride, Profit and Patriarchy
Hardback. Despite the increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football has been left relatively unexplored. This text aims to fill this gap in sports history. Series: American Sports History Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHM; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of information on baseball and its role in American culture. Despite this increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football, the sport that emerged in the late nineteenth century and merged the values of winning and commercialization with the culture of higher education, has been left relatively unexplored. This gap in sports history has left many questions unanswered, including football's link to American cultural values. Gerald R. Gems has filled this gap in ... Read more
Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of information on baseball and its role in American culture. Despite this increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football, the sport that emerged in the late nineteenth century and merged the values of winning and commercialization with the culture of higher education, has been left relatively unexplored. This gap in sports history has left many questions unanswered, including football's link to American cultural values. Gerald R. Gems has filled this gap in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
American Sports History Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810836853
SKU
V9780810836853
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Ref
99-15
About Gerald R. Gems
Gerald R. Gems (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is Full Professor of Health and Physical Education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He has written numerous articles and reviews on sports related issues. His previous Scarecrow publication is Windy CIty Wars: Labor, Leisure and Sport in the Making of Chicago.
Reviews for For Pride, Profit and Patriarchy
...Gems makes a significant contribution to the early history of football. His work is a stimulating, informative and most interesting book to read...his ideas will stimulate further research and analysis into the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century development of football.
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International Journal of the History of Sport
Gem's research covers a host of issues...
Sports Collectors Digest ... Read more