Prologue – The paradoxes of imitation and resistance: the origins of the map of an American empire of sports
2011; Routledge; Volume: 28; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09523367.2011.627190
ISSN1743-9035
Autores Tópico(s)American Sports and Literature
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Dear, The America's Cup. 2. On the linkage between the race and the fair see Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851. 3. Nye, Soft Power: The Illusion of American Empire; Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. 4. The best history of American colonial sport is Struna, People of Prowess. 5. For the British side of hunting and horse racing see Griffin, Blood Sport; MacKenzie, The Empire of Nature; Manning, Hunters and Poachers; Vamplew, The Turf. For the colonial side see Breen, 'Horses and Gentlemen'; Herman, Hunting and the American Imagination; Struna, People of Prowess. 6. Struna, People of Prowess; Brailsford, Sport and Society. 7. Breen, 'Horses and Gentlemen'; Herman, Hunting and the American Imagination; Struna, People of Prowess. 8. Morgan, The American Revolution; Billias, The American Revolution; Wood, The American Revolution; Breen, The Lockean Moment. 9. James, Beyond a Boundary. 10. On the creation of this American variant of sporting lingua franca through baseball see Goldstein, Playing for Keeps; Kirsch, The Creation of American Team Sports; Levine, A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. 11. Mangan, Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School; Mangan, The Games Ethic and Imperialism; Guttmann, Games and Empires. For a more thorough development of this argument about the globalisation of the concept of sport as a nation-making tool versus the globalisation of particular sports, see Dyreson, 'Globalizing the Nation-Making Process'. 12. Goldstein, Playing for Keeps; Kirsch, The Creation of American Team Sports; Levine, A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. 13. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood. 14. Regalado, Viva Baseball!, 16. 15. Echevarría, The Pride of Havana. 16. Guttmann and Thompson. Japanese Sports. 17. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes. 18. Mangan, 'Imperial Complexities'. 19. Ferguson argues in his set-up for his argument that '[W]hen the British governed a country – even when they only influenced its government by flexing their military and financial muscles – there were certain distinctive features of their own society that they tended to disseminate. A list of the more important of these would run: (1) The English language (2) English forms of land tenure (3) Scottish and English banking (4) The Common Law (5) Protestantism (6) Team sports (7) The limited or 'nightwatchman' state (8) Representative assemblies (9) The idea of liberty' Ferguson, Empire, xxiii. After listing sports as a key feature, he spends only a few (pages 260–2) of his more than 350 pages in the tome actually discussing the role of sport in the Empire. When he does, he sounds notes originally composed by J.A. Mangan in pioneering excavations of the public school, the games ethic and the British Empire: Mangan, Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School; Mangan, The Games Ethic and Imperialism. 20. D'Antonio, A Full Cup. 21. This is a play on a nineteenth-century British intelligence officer's coining of phrase 'the great game' and Rudyard Kipling's popularisation of it to describe the contest between the British and Russian empires for control of the vast regions of central Asia. Hopkirk, The Great Game.
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