Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience /
Dyreson, Mark, 1959-
Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / Mark Dyreson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998. - viii, 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Sport and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
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.
0252023498 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780252023491 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0252066545 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780252066542 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
97004663
Sports--Political aspects--United States.
Nationalism and sports--United States.
Sports--Social aspects--United States.
Olympics--Philosophy.
Sports--Aspect politique--âEtats-Unis.
Nationalisme et sports--âEtats-Unis.
Sports--Aspect social--âEtats-Unis.
Jeux olympiques--Philosophie.
/ .D97 1998
796/.0973
Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / Mark Dyreson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998. - viii, 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Sport and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
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.
0252023498 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780252023491 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0252066545 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780252066542 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
97004663
Sports--Political aspects--United States.
Nationalism and sports--United States.
Sports--Social aspects--United States.
Olympics--Philosophy.
Sports--Aspect politique--âEtats-Unis.
Nationalisme et sports--âEtats-Unis.
Sports--Aspect social--âEtats-Unis.
Jeux olympiques--Philosophie.
/ .D97 1998
796/.0973