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Hardcover The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism Book
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ISBN: 0803222165

ISBN13: 9780803222168

The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism

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The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the...

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