Between the centennial celebration of their nation's founding and the end of World War I, Americans used sport to debate the meaning of their republic.
An edition of Making the American team
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Making the American team
sport, culture, and the Olympic experience
by Mark Dyreson
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Mark Dyreson locates the invasion of sport at the heart of American culture at the turn of the century. It was then that social reformers and political leaders believed that sport could revitalize the "republican experiment," that a new sense of national identity could forge a new sense of community and a healthy political order as it would serve to link America's thinking classes with the experiences of the masses.
Nowhere was this better exemplified than in American accounts of the Olympic Games held between 1896 and 1912. In connecting sport to American history and culture, Dyreson has stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park.
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Nationalism and sports, Olympics, Philosophy, Political aspects, Political aspects of Sports, Social aspects, Social aspects of Sports, Sports, Sports and state, Sports, social aspects, Aspect politique, Nationalisme et sports, Aspect social, Jeux olympiques, Philosophie, Geschichte 1896-1912, Sportpolitik, Nationalismus, Olympic games, Olympische SpielePlaces
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Making the American team: sport, culture, and the Olympic experience
1998, University of Illinois Press
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Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience (Sport and Society)
December 1, 1997, University of Illinois Press
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
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