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The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos ... Reconsidered

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This work examines American sport from its traditional roots to the influence of the 1960s-era counterculture and the rise of a post-Cold War ethos that reinterprets competition as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life.

Author Biography:

Dr. Joel Nathan Rosen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between human activity and stratification as informed by cultural idioms such as music and sport. He is the author of From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta (Carolina Academic Press, 2011); co-author of Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), and the co-editor of a five volume series on celebrity athletes and the construction of challenging reputations (University Press of Mississippi, 2008-2021). Dr. Dominic Standish is a lecturer for the University of Iowa, CIMBA Italy campus. He appears regularly on TV and radio programs and has had articles and chapters published in numerous books, journals, newspapers, and websites, which can be accessed from his website at dstandish.com. His book Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality was published by the University Press of America in 2012. Dr. Standish is also an ardent supporter of the English football club Queen's Park Rangers.
Release date Australia
January 1st, 2021
Contributor
  • Foreword by Dominic Standish
Pages
420
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
152x229x22
ISBN-13
9780983298236
Product ID
34338981

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