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More About This Title Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920
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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-penetrating and finally remaking popular culture.
Using a topical approach, Riess looks at sport from several vantage points, analyzing the interaction between sport and the rise of modern cities; the impact of sport on immigration, race, class, and gender; how sport became accessible through technological innovations; how it became integral to various educational and social movements; the coming of the professional sports figure; sport's links to politics and organized crime; and the role of women in sport. Highlighted with colorful anecdotes, the narrative unfurls a pageant of celebrities and unknowns, players, spectators, and entrepreneurs-all engaged in the drama that is American sport.
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Foreword v
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter One. Urbanization, the Technological Revolution, and the Rise of Sport 11
Urban Reform and the Ideology of Sport 14
Sport and Urban Space 20
Sport and the Promotion of Public Pride 26
The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport 29
Chapter Two. Sport and Class 43
Sport and the American Elite 45
Sport and the Middle Class 57
Working-Class Sport 67
Chapter Three. Sport, Ethnicity, and Race 83
The Old Immigrants 84
The New Immigrants 97
The Native Americans 105
African Americans 107
Chapter Four. Sport and the Educational Process 115
Sport and Higher Education 116
Secondary School Sport 135
Adult-Directed Youth Sport 137
Chapter Five. Baseball and the Rise of Professional Sport 144
Prizefighting 145
Thoroughbred Racing 149
Professional Baseball 153
Bibliographical Essay 179
Index 207
