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<P>This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach, it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. The book also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century.  Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapters study boxing, hockey, track and field and soccer alongside the 'big three' (basketball, baseball and American football) through a number of case studies to offer a novel interpretation of American sport history. Spanning early Native American sport, the export of baseball in the American empire, the role of basketball in the Cold War, the influence of immigrants and women in sports, and modern day sport culture, this title asks what the role of sport has been and will be in a shifting international environment.</P>

American Sport in International History

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Table of Contents.
Figures.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Internationalizing the History of American Sport.
1: The Huddled Masses: America, Sport, and the World at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
2: Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe.
3: In Service of the State: The Business and Politics of Sport between the World Wars.
4: Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
5: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete : Consumerism, Civil Rights, and Sport in the Early Cold War.
6: Athlete Spotlight #3: Althea Gibson.
7: New Frontiers in Player Empowerment: The Globalization of US Sport at the Close of the American Century.
8: Athlete Spotlight #4: Carl Lewis.
9: Into the Twenty-First Century : US Sport in the World since 2000.
10: Athlete Spotlight #5: Michelle Kwan.
Conclusion.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.

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