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1. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

   Cathedrals of Sport

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

   Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

   Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

   Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

   Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

   Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Olympic Aspirations

   Realised and Unrealised

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Sport and American Society

   Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
7. Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

   America at the Olympics

   By Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and...

   Published August 14th 2008 by Routledge