Ambassadors in Pinstripes
Autor Thomas W Zeileren Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 2006
Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade after their tour.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780742551695
ISBN-10: 0742551695
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0742551695
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
1 Introduction: Baseball, Globalization, and Empire
2 Marketing: Albert Spalding's Chicago
3 Movement: The American West
4 An Empire of Race: Southern Seas
5 Old and New World Cultures: Europe
6 National Identity: Return to America
7 Conclusion: Imperial Imagination
8 Bibliography
2 Marketing: Albert Spalding's Chicago
3 Movement: The American West
4 An Empire of Race: Southern Seas
5 Old and New World Cultures: Europe
6 National Identity: Return to America
7 Conclusion: Imperial Imagination
8 Bibliography
Recenzii
In 1888-89 two teams of professional baseball players squared off against one another on an international tour that included games in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, and England. In this delightful book, Thomas Zeiler tells the story of this tour and puts it in the context of the imperial expansion of the United States that was so much a part of our diplomacy at the end of the 19th century. On the one hand, this is baseball history for adults. On the other, it is a painless - even pleasurable - way to introduce students to the global foreign policy that Americans would implement thereafter.
Join "Big Al" Spalding and his Base Ball tourists on their globetrotting mission to make America's pastime into the world's game. You won't regret the trip. Thomas Zeiler draws on the most recent scholarship on such subjects as globalization, gender, tourism, sports history, and race, to show how Spalding's mission was America's mission in all of its idealistic self-interested complexity. Highly informative and fun to read, Ambassadors in Pinstripes is an ideal book for courses on U.S. Foreign Relations, Sports History, and Gilded Age America.
Pro ball players playing exhibitions in the distant East, the sport beset by labor strife as management uses cutting-edge technologies to sell the game to an international audience. Sounds like last week, right? How about 1888? The common gripe runs that baseball is now too dominated by business priorities-but according to Zeiler, things weren't any different 118 years ago.
A thorough account of the then-unprecedented world baseball tour orchestrated by Albert Spalding (1888-89), relating to the heightened influence of the U.S. in international affairs. Recommended.
This is an interesting, well-conceived, ably contextualized, and accessibly written contribution to the literature of both US sport and cultural history....Zeiler is to be commended.
Ambassadors in Pinstripes captures the excitement and drama of Albert Spalding's audacious baseball tour of the world. Thomas Zeiler has woven a narrative that is part travelogue, part tour book, part baseball history, and, at the same time, an incisive critique of late nineteenth century imperialism. He offers the reader a real sense of both baseball and Americans abroad in the Victorian Era.
The book provides a very accessible, vivid, and fascinating . . . account of the 'greatest trip in the annals of sport,' the mysterious journeys of present-day baseball Marco Polos included.
Zeiler appears not to have missed a beat in his collection of relevant articles and books.
Join "Big Al" Spalding and his Base Ball tourists on their globetrotting mission to make America's pastime into the world's game. You won't regret the trip. Thomas Zeiler draws on the most recent scholarship on such subjects as globalization, gender, tourism, sports history, and race, to show how Spalding's mission was America's mission in all of its idealistic self-interested complexity. Highly informative and fun to read, Ambassadors in Pinstripes is an ideal book for courses on U.S. Foreign Relations, Sports History, and Gilded Age America.
Pro ball players playing exhibitions in the distant East, the sport beset by labor strife as management uses cutting-edge technologies to sell the game to an international audience. Sounds like last week, right? How about 1888? The common gripe runs that baseball is now too dominated by business priorities-but according to Zeiler, things weren't any different 118 years ago.
A thorough account of the then-unprecedented world baseball tour orchestrated by Albert Spalding (1888-89), relating to the heightened influence of the U.S. in international affairs. Recommended.
This is an interesting, well-conceived, ably contextualized, and accessibly written contribution to the literature of both US sport and cultural history....Zeiler is to be commended.
Ambassadors in Pinstripes captures the excitement and drama of Albert Spalding's audacious baseball tour of the world. Thomas Zeiler has woven a narrative that is part travelogue, part tour book, part baseball history, and, at the same time, an incisive critique of late nineteenth century imperialism. He offers the reader a real sense of both baseball and Americans abroad in the Victorian Era.
The book provides a very accessible, vivid, and fascinating . . . account of the 'greatest trip in the annals of sport,' the mysterious journeys of present-day baseball Marco Polos included.
Zeiler appears not to have missed a beat in his collection of relevant articles and books.