Patriotic Games —— Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926

----- 爱国运动会：美国想象力中的体育传统，1876-1926年

ISBN: 9780195091335 出版年：1997 页码：235 Pope, S W Oxford University Press

In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines. In a time of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecendented immigration, the rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the shaping of America's national identity.