City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports

(Part of the Sport and Society Series)

by Steven A. Riess

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Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252062167

ISBN13:9780252062162

Release Date:March 1991

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 1.5" x 2.7"

Related Subjects

Americas History of Sports Miscellaneous Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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