Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.
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Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xii+ 332 pp. Illustrations. An unused copy but with foxing to the edge of the text block. In bright, crisp dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the spine. Comprehensive, thoughtful look at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between spors and the city. The work deals primarily with the period 1870-1960 when the growth of modern cities intersected with thew development of nearly all the major sports.
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