The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism

by Gerald R. Gems

Book Overview

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222165
• ISBN13: 9780803222168
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"