As the first in a series of books on America since 1945, Davies' book offers insightful historical interpretation as it examines sports as a microcosm of America's national life. From Americans' use of sports seasons (instead of weather seasons) to mark time…to the nation's propensity for neglecting its educational system in favor of putting resources into high school athletic programs…Davies presents facts and narratives that will provoke students to think critically about life in the United States.

America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945

History

DAVIES, RICHARD O.

Americas

Cengage Learning'

The age of asphalt: The automobile, the freeway, and the condition of metropolitan America (The America's alternatives series) [Jan 01, 1975]

The age of asphalt: The automobile, the freeway, and the condition of metropolitan America (The America's alternatives series)

Lippincott

This new edition of Davies’ highly praised narrative of American sports history makes use of the very latest research and now includes updated and expanded coverage of major sporting events since 2006, extreme sports, and women in sports. 
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<li> Extensively revised throughout, with particular attention to making a leaner, more fast-paced narrative </li> <li> Allows students and scholars to keep up-to-date with the fast-emerging scholarship in this field </li> <li> The most detailed history of American sports, with an emphasis upon major issues, trends, and interpretations </li> <li> Highlights the social, economic, and cultural interaction between sports and larger issues, such as gender, race, and class </li> <li> Instructor's Manual with Test Bank available on publication at www.wiley.com/go/davies </li> </ul>

Sports in American Life: A History

Wiley/Blackwell

America's Obsession: Sports and American Society

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places.

Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History

Literature & Fiction

Amato, Joseph A. A.

Kost, Charlie

History & Criticism

University of California Press

From Introduction - There has been nothing ordinary abut the history of the State of Nevada. Throughout its existence Nevada has been home to unconventional life styles that were often at odds with mainstream America. Nevada has been and is likely to remain, a most curious place. (Description by http-mart)

Of Sagebrush & Slot Machines: This Curious Place Called Nevada (2nd Edition)

Education & Teaching

Casper, Scott E.

Schools & Teaching

PEARSON/LEARNING SOLUTIONS

This biography of one of the leading conservative figures of 20th-century America traces the roots of Bricker's (1893-1986) ideology in his formative years as a boy growing up on an Ohio farm and examines his political career as governor, vice presidential candidate, and senator. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Defender of the Old Guard: John Bricker and American Politics

Ohio State Univ Pr

Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden. Davies describes the development of the relatively self-sufficient community that emerged from the Ohio land rush of the early nineteenth century, a community that reached its apex during the 1920s and then entered into a period of slow decline caused by forces beyond its control. He details the roles of land speculation, the railroad era, the impact of the automobile, the emergence of a tightly knit community, and finally the post-World War II loss of business and population to the nearby cities of Dayton, Hamilton, and Cincinnati.

MAIN STREET BLUES: THE DECLINE OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

Ohio State University Press

BETTING THE LINE: SPORTS WAGERING IN AMERICAN LIFE

Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life is a study of gambling, particularly sports gambling, and how it has thrived in American culture. According to Davies and Abram, the culture of betting results from two complementary influences in American society: risk taking and speculation. This is the first effort by academic writers to describe and interpret the history of sports wagering in the United States. Although many books have been written about "how to bet and win," Betting the Line presents a serious history of this popular activity, from the colonial and Civil War eras to today, from early betting on horse racing and baseball to the modern venues of basketball and football. By considering topics as diverse as the business of a bookie, the expansion of legalized gambling, and the increase in popularity of televised sports, the authors offer readers an insightful look into a practice that has become commonplace in American popular culture. In a mere seventy years, the number of states where gambling is legal jumped from one to forty-eight. Yet Nevada remains the only state where sports betting is legal. This book challenges many long-standing myths and stereotypes that revolve around the enterprise, arguing that sports gambling is reflective of the American free enterprise culture. Blending historical facts with interesting tidbits and anecdotes, this lively book both engages and informs. Betting the Line makes a major contribtuion to American social and cultural history as well as to sports history. Richard O. Davies is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. Richard G. Abram is an instructor in the Core Curriculum Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Humor & Entertainment

ABRAM, RICHARD G.

Puzzles & Games

Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life is a study of gambling, particularly sports gambling, and how it has thrived in American culture. According to Davies and Abram, the culture of betting results from two complementary influences in American society: risk taking and speculation. This is the first effort by academic writers to describe and interpret the history of sports wagering in the United States. Although many books have been written about "how to bet and win," Betting the Line presents a serious history of this popular activity, from the colonial and Civil War eras to today, from early betting on horse racing and baseball to the modern venues of basketball and football. By considering topics as diverse as the business of a bookie, the expansion of legalized gambling, and the increase in popularity of televised sports, the authors offer readers an insightful look into a practice that has become commonplace in American popular culture. In a mere seventy years, the number of states where gambling is legal jumped from one to forty-eight. Yet Nevada remains the only state where sports betting is legal. This book challenges many long-standing myths and stereotypes that revolve around the enterprise, arguing that sports gambling is reflective of the American free enterprise culture. Blending historical facts with interesting tidbits and anecdotes, this lively book both engages and informs. Betting the Line makes a major contribtuion to American social and cultural history as well as to sports history. Richard O. Davies is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. Richard G. Abram is an instructor in the Core Curriculum Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945

The age of asphalt: The automobile, the freeway, and the condition of metropolitan America (The America's alternatives series)

Sports in American Life: A History

America's Obsession: Sports and American Society

Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History

Of Sagebrush & Slot Machines: This Curious Place Called Nevada (2nd Edition)

Defender of the Old Guard: John Bricker and American Politics

MAIN STREET BLUES: THE DECLINE OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

BETTING THE LINE: SPORTS WAGERING IN AMERICAN LIFE

BETTING THE LINE: SPORTS WAGERING IN AMERICAN LIFE