Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sports in America 1940 to present written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference traces the fascinating and often tumultuous growth of sports in America--how the icons, the commercial enterprises, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and era to era.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History written by Ralph Hickok and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference to sports history in North America covers every aspect of sports, including major figures, events, awards, venues, and organizations.
Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty First Century An Encyclopedia written by Steven A. Riess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sports in America Colonial years to 1939 written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference traces the fascinating and often tumultuous growth of sports in America--how the icons, the commercial enterprises, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and era to era.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sports in America 2 volumes written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports and leisure activities serve as a mirror, allowing us to examine the attitudes and values of everyday people. This new reference explores the development and influence of sports in American culture, as well as how sports icons, commercial enterprises, organizations, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and from era to era, from the foot races of colonial times to the extreme sports of today. Each chapter focuses on key aspects of sports in American culture, including such topics as ethnicity, gender, and economics. Enhanced with numerous sidebars on the movers and shakers, key sporting trends, as well as the controversies that threatened to tear the sports world apart, this insightful reference is ideal for high school and college students who are interested in tracing the evolution of sports and American culture throughout the nation's history. Features include a timeline of important events, numerous photographs, and a bibliography of print and electronic sources for further
Download or read book Sports on Film written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America. Sports on Film documents key events in American sports history through the films that depict them, starting with the integration of major-league baseball when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Other significant events and personalities examined include the college basketball point-shaving incident of the 1950s; journalist George Plimpton's attempt to go through the Detroit Lions' NFL training camp in the early 1960s; the originations and popularity of rodeo; the brief run of women's professional baseball during World War II; the underdog racehorse Seabiscuit during the Great Depression; the rise of African American boxer Muhammad Ali; the unique 1970s "Battle of the Sexes" tennis event between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; and Ford Motor Company's run in the 1960s to take motorsports to Europe's premier event in Le Mans, France.
Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty first Century G Q written by Steven A. Riess and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1063 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries from G-Q of the history of American sports from colonial times to the twenty-first century, highlighting key events and figures that help sports become a key part of the nation's political, social, cultural, and economic fabric.
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America 4 volumes written by Randall M. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 2658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.
Download or read book Sports in America written by Steven Allan Riess and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals--not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds--along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies--plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs--round out the coverage.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Short Films 1926 1959 written by Graham Webb and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty First Century An Encyclopedia written by Steven A. Riess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.
Download or read book Sports Encyclopedia North America written by John D. Windhausen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty first Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping perspective of sports in the United States from the colonial era to the present day, this work explores the subject from a variety of perspectives -- society, business, economics, law, politics, psychology, and others.
Download or read book The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives written by Arnie Markoe and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographies of active and retired athletes, living or dead, plus media personalities, coaches, and administrators.
Download or read book The Chicago Sports Reader written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine written by Lyle J. Micheli and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 1881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries cover issues related to sports medicine, including diagnostic and treatment techniques, conditioning and training, diet and nutrition, doping and performance enhancement, injury prevention, and career opportunities.
