Introduction : the meaning of sport -- The rise of genteel sport -- A revolution in sporting culture -- Sport reborn -- Profit and prestige -- A mass sporting industry -- Sporting cultures -- Epilogue : change and persistence
Summary
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 ..
Analysis
Politicized entertainment, early america, theater history, business history, political and economic power of wealth,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2017)
