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Preface
Introduction by George Eisen
Early European Attitudes toward Native American Sports and Pastimes by George Eisen
For Identity, for Cause, for Health, and Fitness: Forty-Eighters and the Rise of the Turnverein Movement in America by Robert Knight Barney
A Home In the South: The Turners of Galveston, Texas, 1840-1865 by K.B. Wamsley
The Shamrock and the Eagle: Irish-Americans and Sport in the Nineteenth Century by Ralph C. Wilcox
Jews and Baseball: A Cultural Love Story by Eric Solomon
The Italian-American Sporting Experience by Carmelo Bazzano
"Diversionary" Tactics: The Recreation and Leisure Pursuits of Japanese Americans in World War II Internment Camps by Alison M. Wrynn
The Quest for Identity: The Notion of Double-Consciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American Sport by David K. Wiggins
Sport in Philadelphia's African-American Community, 1865-1900 by J. Thomas Jable
Sport and the Americanization of Ethnic Women in Chicago by Gerald R. Gems
"We Raced for Socks and Sweaters--Not that Useless Bourgeois Stuff, Cups and Medals": Radical Immigrants and the Workers' Sport Federation of Canada, 1924-37 by Bruce Kidd
Sport and Social Mobility among African-American and Hispanic Athletes by Merrill J. Melnick and Donald Sabo
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George Eisen, David K. Wiggins
