The Crown Games of Ancient Greece

David Lunt

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised t... Lees meer

Moving Boarders

Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, E Missy Wright, Zánean McClain

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American chil... Lees meer

DC Sports

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Washington, DC, is best known for its politics and monuments, but sport has always been an integral part of the city, and Washingtonians are among the... Lees meer

The Crown Games of Ancient Greece

David Lunt

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised t... Lees meer

A Spectacular Leap

Jennifer H Lansbury

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Through the stories of six athletes--Alice Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. ... Lees meer

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

Ryan K Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Fran... Lees meer

Hoop Crazy

Dennis Gildea

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career ... Lees meer

George Dixon

Jason Winders

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Winner, 2022 NASSH Book Award (Monograph) On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the N... Lees meer

A Spectacular Leap

Jennifer H Lansbury

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with a spectacular leap, African American women had been pa... Lees meer

Baltimore Sports

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com. Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner," the incomparable Babe ... Lees meer

Separate Games

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminate... Lees meer

Defending the American Way of Life

Kevin B. Witherspoon

• Hardcover | Sport, Culture, and Society
• The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. In Defending the American Way of Life, leadin... Lees meer

New Orleans Sports

Thomas Aiello

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty ... Lees meer

Twin Cities Sports

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The comp... Lees meer

Olimpismo

• Paperback | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Ca... Lees meer

Separate Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport, Culture, and Society
• Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminate... Lees meer