The Rise Of Stadiums In The Modern United States

Author : Mark Dyreson,Robert Trumpbour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317989271

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The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States by Mark Dyreson,Robert Trumpbour Pdf

Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes literally shaped by their devotion to athletic competition. Curiously, given the importance of the secular cathedrals in American culture, historians have paid little attention to these edifices. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport seeks to remedy that oversight. This book will analyze stadiums from a variety of perspectives, paying special attention to the links between the ‘built environment’ in which Americans watch and play games and the larger social environments that the nation’s sporting practices inhabit. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities, determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing local and national politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Robert C. Trumpbour,Kenneth Womack
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496211781

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The Eighth Wonder of the World by Robert C. Trumpbour,Kenneth Womack Pdf

2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research 2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation, bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation nationwide. It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of engineering with premium luxury suites, theater-style seating, and the first animated scoreboard. Yet there were memorable problems such as outfielders’ inability to see fly balls and failed attempts to grow natural grass—which ultimately led to the development of AstroTurf. The Astrodome nonetheless changed the way people viewed sports, putting casual fans at the forefront of a user-experience approach that soon became the standard in all American sports. The Eighth Wonder of the World tears back the facade and details the Astrodome’s role in transforming Houston as a city while also chronicling the building’s storied fifty years in existence and the ongoing debate about its preservation.

Author : Dorothy Chansky,Sarah W. Tracy
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648891021

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Conversations With Food by Dorothy Chansky,Sarah W. Tracy Pdf

"Conversations With Food" offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking. Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as a way to improve or harm health—individual or collective. The anthology ranges from Ancient Greece to the posthuman fairy underworld; from the codifying of French culinary heritage to the strategic marketing of 100-calorie snacks; from the European famine after the Second World War to the lush and exotic cuisines of culinary tourism today. "Conversations With Food" will engage anyone interested in discovering the disciplinary breadth and depth of food studies. The anthology is ideally suited for introductory and advanced courses in food studies, as it includes essays in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, and each author draws cross-disciplinary linkages between their own work and other essays in the volume. This thematic and conceptual intercalation, when read with the editors’ introduction, makes the collection an exceptionally strong representation of the field of food studies.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118609408

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A Companion to American Sport History by Steven A. Riess Pdf

A Companion to American Sport History presents acollection of original essays that represent the firstcomprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing fieldof American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarshiprelating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars workingin the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonialtimes to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and trackand field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sportsbiography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Author : Robert F. Garratt
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496214072

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Home Team by Robert F. Garratt Pdf

In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans had to learn to embrace the newcomers. Starting with the franchise’s earliest days and following the team up to recent World Series glory, Home Team chronicles the story of the Giants and their often topsy-turvy relationship with the city of San Francisco. Robert F. Garratt shines light on those who worked behind the scenes in the story of West Coast baseball: the politicians, businessmen, and owners who were instrumental in the club’s history. Home Team presents Stoneham, often left in the shadow of Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, as a true baseball pioneer in his willingness to sign black and Latino players and his recruitment of the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues, making the Giants one of the most integrated teams in baseball in the early 1960s. Garratt also records the turbulent times, poor results, declining attendance, two near-moves away from California, and the role of post-Stoneham owners Bob Lurie and Peter Magowan in the Giants’ eventual reemergence as a baseball powerhouse. Garratt’s superb history of this great ball club makes the Giants’ story one of the most compelling of all Major League franchises.

Author : Rafi Kohan
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781631491283

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The Arena: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport by Rafi Kohan Pdf

Finalist • PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “An inventive, fast-paced look at what have become our modern shrines in a sports-obsessed society.” —Tom Verducci In this “addictive” (Publishers Weekly) romp, intrepid sportswriter Rafi Kohan finagles access to our most beloved fields to find out just what makes them tick: from old-timer Wrigley, creakily adjusting to the twenty-first century, to the oversized monstrosity of Jerry’s World in Dallas. Investigating harrowing logistics and deeply ingrained traditions, Kohan employs his infectious “wit and style” (Christian Science Monitor) to expose the realities of building and maintaining these commercial cathedrals of sports worship. “Highly compelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), The Arena is a must-read for superfans, shameless bandwagoners, athletes, groundskeepers, culture junkies, and anyone who’s ever headed off eagerly to the ballpark to catch a game.

Author : Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756037

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San Francisco Bay Area Sports by Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith Pdf

San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities such as Oakland’s public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces, particularity in a place known for its nonconformity.

Author : Howard Shubert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773548138

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Architecture on Ice by Howard Shubert Pdf

An architectural and cultural history of skating rinks and hockey arenas in North America.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PURD:32754081200127

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Professional Sports Stadiums by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy Pdf

Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Professional sports
ISBN : 9781593921408

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Plunkett's Sports Industry Almanac 2009 by Jack W. Plunkett Pdf

A guide to the business side of sports, teams, marketing and equipment - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It includes over 350 one page profiles of sports industry firms, companies and organizations.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350283091

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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age by Steven A. Riess Pdf

A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global cultural force and one of the deepest ways in which individual nations express their myths, beliefs, values, traditions and realities. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation. Steven A. Riess is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, USA. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000066755937

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Gaming the Tax Code by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy Pdf

Author : Kevin J. Delaney,Rick Eckstein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813533430

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Public Dollars, Private Stadiums by Kevin J. Delaney,Rick Eckstein Pdf

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Author : Bale John Bale
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Sports facilities
ISBN : 9781474464116

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Stadium and the City by Bale John Bale Pdf

This well-illustrated book is the first to explore the stadium as the principal container of the modern urban crowd and a place where thousands of people gather to take part in what often appears to be modern 'religious' rituals. Is the stadium a prison, a garden or a theatre? Do new stadiums contribute economically to the places in which they are built? Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and China, this book ranges from historical studies of stadium growth to current reviews of stadium development, exposing the stadium as a major element of the modern urban scene.

Author : Neil deMause,Joanna Cagan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780803285484

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Field of Schemes by Neil deMause,Joanna Cagan Pdf