Sport in Industrial America: 1850 - 1920 by Steven A. Riess

Sport in Industrial America: 1850 - 1920

Steven A. Riess

221 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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Riess examines the evolution of sport from its rural and urban origins as a less-than-respectable entertainment for the lower classes, through its antebellum upsurge when, with the development of a new sport ideology, it attained respectability-pe...

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