Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Sports Wars : Athletes in the Age of Aquarius, Hardback Book

Sports Wars : Athletes in the Age of Aquarius Hardback

Hardback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

The Vietnam era's tensions—between tradition and new possibilities, black and white, young and old, male and female—were played out on the field of professional and organized sports.

SportsWars shows that the century-old position of sports as the standard-bearer for American values, and as a central way of building character, made it a prime target in this time of general disenchantment.

Critics began to challenge not only individual abuses but sport's very ideals, and for the first time these critics included athletes themselves.

Zang locates a variety of larger cultural debates within professional sports and organized sports more generally: changing valuations of hard work and the physical, winning versus character, and challenges to authority.

He also considers the relationships between sports and other domains of popular culture, including the counterculture, rock and roll, and Hollywood.

Information

£42.95

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information