Mapping an Empire of American Sport - Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

Summary

Mapping an Empire of American Sport charts the expansion of and the resistance to American power in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim. It provides a novel and sweeping historical roadmap to the struggles over sporting globalisation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Product details

• Authors: Mark (Pennsylvania State University Dyreson
• Assisted by: Mark Dyreson (Editor), Dyreson Mark (Editor), J.A. Mangan (Editor), Roberta J. Park (Editor), Park Roberta J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138108639
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10863-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Basketball, Baseball, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Communication Studies, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer)