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Product details
- ISBN 9780252062162
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1991
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Steven A. Riess is a former professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University and former editor of the Journal of Sport History. He is the author of Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Eraand editor of The American Sporting Experience: A Historical Anthology of Sport in America.
