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.
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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 ...
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Title
They will have their game.
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9781501705496
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 18th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Sports-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 18th century.
Sports-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Civilization.
HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.