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Sport & American Mentality, 1880-1910
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Few observers of American life today would doubt that sports occupy a prominent place in our society, but equally few have examined the origins of the country's greatest passion. Probing our history, culture, and consciousness, Donald J. Mrozek shows how sports gained national acceptance and became as standard as fried chicken and church on Sunday.
Today's boom has its roots in the period from 1880–1910. As Mrozek shows, famous and forgotten public figures and athletes helped shaped the modern craze. They included nutritionist Horace Fletcher, strongman Eugene Sandow, journalist Elizabeth Paine, and such familiar personalities as Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Muir.
A national interest in sports could develop only after the governing classes had ceased to oppose organized games. Thereafter many forces worked on the public mind. National unification after the Civil War, changes in the role of women, and increases in leisure time all played a part. Other contributing trends were interest in an energetic lifestyle, the beginnings of a youth culture, and a generalized need for acceptable ways of expressing sexuality and sensuality. This wide-ranging study paints a lively and compelling portrait of the American people in quest of sport.
Today's boom has its roots in the period from 1880–1910. As Mrozek shows, famous and forgotten public figures and athletes helped shaped the modern craze. They included nutritionist Horace Fletcher, strongman Eugene Sandow, journalist Elizabeth Paine, and such familiar personalities as Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Muir.
A national interest in sports could develop only after the governing classes had ceased to oppose organized games. Thereafter many forces worked on the public mind. National unification after the Civil War, changes in the role of women, and increases in leisure time all played a part. Other contributing trends were interest in an energetic lifestyle, the beginnings of a youth culture, and a generalized need for acceptable ways of expressing sexuality and sensuality. This wide-ranging study paints a lively and compelling portrait of the American people in quest of sport.
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Information
Publisher
University of Tennessee PressYear
2024eBook ISBN
9781621909897Subtopic
North American HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustration
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter One: Strategies of Regeneration
- Chapter Two: Social Efficiency and the Spirit of VictoryâThe Ideas and Sporting Practices of Politicians and Military Officers
- Chapter Three: Winning and the Regulated Life â The New Experts in Physical Culture
- Chapter Four: Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and DisplayâThe Pastimes of the Rich
- Chapter Five: From âSwooning Damselâ to Sportswoman â The Role of Women as a Constituency in Sport
- Chapter Six: From Playing Fields to National Parks â The Instinct toward American Nationalism in Sport and Recreation
- Chapter Seven: Toward a New Image of the BodyâChampions of Movement and Action
- Chapter Eight: Sport and Mentality
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book and Author