City games : the evolution of American urban society and the rise of sports

Author(s)

• Riess, Steven A.

Bibliographic Information

City games : the evolution of American urban society and the rise of sports

Steven A. Riess

（Sports and society）

University of Illinois Press, c1989

• : hb
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [260]-309

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.

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Details

• NCID: BA07628392
• ISBN:
  • 0252015738
  • 0252062167
• LCCN: 88017346
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Urbana
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 332 p., [20] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 780.2
  • LCC : GV583
  • DC19 : 796/.0973
  • NDC8 : 780.253
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sports -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Labor and laboring classes -- United States -- Recreation -- History
  • LCSH : Sports -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : City and town life -- United States -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00714044