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Author:

Dyreson, Mark, 1959-

Title:

Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / Mark Dyreson.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

viii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sports--Political aspects--United States.
Nationalism and sports--United States.
Sports--Social aspects--United States.
Olympics--Philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Sport and society

ISBN:

9780252066542 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0252066545 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36379739

LCCN:

97004663

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 796/.0973

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake) — 796/.0973