They Will Have Their Game : : Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic /

They Will Have Their Game : : Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic / / Kenneth Cohen.

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In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Cohen, Kenneth,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 25 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Colonial Period
  • 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport
  • 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture
  • Part Two. The Early National Period
  • 3. Sport Reborn
  • 4. Prestige or Profit
  • Part Three. The Antebellum Period
  • 5. A Mass Sporting Industry
  • 6. Sporting Cultures
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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