Sport in America, Volume II

Part I: The Pattern of Sport in Early America, 1607-1776

Chapter 1: Sober Mirth and Pleasant Poisons: Puritan Ambivalence Toward Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England

Bruce C. Daniels

Chapter 2: Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia

T. H. Breen

Part II: Transformation of Sport in a Rapidly Changing Society, 1776-1870

Chapter 3: Pedestrianism, Billiards, Boxing, and Animal Sports

Melvin L. Adelman

Chapter 4: Cheating, Gender Roles, and the Nineteenth-Century Croquet Craze

Jon Sterngass

Chapter 5: The National Game

Warren Goldstein

Part III Sport in the Era of Industrialization and Reform, 1870-1915

Chapter 6: Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and Display-The Pastimes of the Rich

Donald J. Mrozek

Chapter 7: Creating America's Winter Golfing Mecca at Pinehurst, North Carolina: National Marketing and Local Control

Larry R. Youngs

Chapter 8: The Father of American Football

Michael Oriard

Part IV: Sport, The Great Depression, and Two World Wars, 1915-1950

Chapter 9: The World War I American Military Sporting Experience

S.W. Pope

Chapter 10: In Sports the Best Man Wins: How Joe Louis Whupped Jim Crow

Theresa E. Runstedtler

Chapter 11: Padres on MountOlympus: Los Angeles and the Production of the 1932 Olympic Mega-Event

Sean Dinces

Chapter 12: Going to Bat for Jackie Robinson: The Jewish Role in Breaking Baseball's Color Line

Stephen H. Norwood and Harold Brackman

Part V: Sport in the Age of Television, Discord, and Personal Fulfillment, 1950-1985

Chapter 13: Toil and Trouble: A Parable of Hard Work and Fun

David W. Zang

Chapter 14: Victory for Allah: Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and American Society

David K. Wiggins

Chapter 15: The Fight for Title IX

Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford

Part VI: Sport During the Period of Celebrity and Globalization, 1985-Present

Chapter 16: Yearning for Yesteryear: Cal Ripken, Jr., The Streak, And the Politics of Nostalgia

Daniel A. Nathan and Mary G. McDonald

Chapter 17: Manhood, Memory, and White Men's Sports in the American South

Ted Ownby

Chapter 18: The Whole World Isn't Watching (But We Thought They Were): The Super Bowl and U.S. Solipsism

Christopher R. Martin and Jimmie L. Reeves

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