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Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience
- Title
- Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / Mark Dyreson.
- Author
- Dyreson, Mark, 1959-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 269 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sport and society
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
- Contents
- Inventing the sporting republic -- Athens, 1896 : "See the conquering heroes come" -- Paris, 1900 : exhibiting American athletic nationalism -- St. Louis, 1904 : an "all-American" Olympics -- The limits of universal claims : how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shaped the sporting republic -- Athens, 1906, and London, 1908 : Uncle Sam was all right -- Stockholm, 1912 : the sporting republic's zenith -- The idea of a sporting republic : athletic technology, American political culture, and progressive visions of civilization -- The decline of the sporting republic.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-3323
- ISBN
- 0252023498 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0252066545 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 97004663
- OCLC
- 36379739
- Author
- Dyreson, Mark, 1959-
- Title
- Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / Mark Dyreson.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
- Series
- Sport and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-3323