City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Sport and Society)

By Steven A. Riess

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252015738
• ISBN13: 9780252015731
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"