By Mark Dyreson,Robert Trumpbour
ISBN-10: 0415499984
ISBN-13: 9780415499989
ISBN-10: 0415853818
ISBN-13: 9780415853811
Many american citizens comprehend extra in regards to the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or collage campuses than they do approximately the other element of the nation’s geography. Stadiums function iconic monuments of city and collage identities. certainly, the ability of game in glossy American tradition has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes actually formed by way of their devotion to athletic pageant. apparently, given the significance of the secular cathedrals in American tradition, historians have paid little cognizance to those edifices. The upward push of Stadiums within the sleek usa: Cathedrals of Sport seeks to treatment that oversight. This ebook will research stadiums from a number of views, paying specified cognizance to the hyperlinks among the ‘built surroundings’ within which americans watch and play video games and the bigger social environments that the nation’s wearing practices inhabit. The upward push of Stadiums within the smooth usa: Cathedrals of recreation explores the function of stadiums in shaping city identities, making a choice on the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing neighborhood and nationwide politics.
This publication used to be formerly released as a distinct factor of the International magazine of the heritage of Sport.
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