Mapping an Empire of American Sport

Mark Dyreson is Professor of Kinesiology and History at the Pennsylvania State University, an academic editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport, a former president of the North American Society for Sport History, and the author of several books on the history of sport. J.A. Mangan, Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde, FRHS, FRAI, D. Litt.l is Founding Editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and the series Sport in the Global Society, author of the globally acclaimed Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School, The Games Ethic and imperialism and ‘Manufacturing ‘Masculinity: Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism. He has authored and edited many studies of politics, culture, and sport. Roberta Park is Emeritus Professor University of California, Berkeley, former president of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, vice president of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, and author of numerous historical articles.

1. Prologue – The paradoxes of imitation and resistance: the origins of the map of an American empire of sports Mark Dyreson 2. Imperial ‘deep play’: reading sport and visions of the five empires of the ‘New World’, 1919–1941 Mark Dyreson 3. Sporting Japanese-ness in an Americanised Japan Sandra Collins 4. Baseball’s kakehashi: a bridge of understanding and the Nikkei experience Samuel O. Regalado 5. Reason and magic in the country of baseball John D. Kelly 6. The national pastime trade-off: how baseball sells US foreign policy and the American way Robert Elias 7. American sports across the Americas Joseph L. Arbena 8. The limits of Pan-Americanism: the case of the failed 1942 Pan-American Games Cesar R. Torres 9. From la bomba to béisbol: sport and the Americanisation of Puerto Rico, 1898–1950 Roberta J. Park 10. ‘Changing the cultural landscape’: English engineers, American missionaries, and the YMCA bring sports to Brazil – the 1870s to the 1930s Claudia Guedes 11. In pursuit of perspective: the other empire of sport – cultural imperialism for confident control and consequent legacies J.A. Mangan 12. Epilogue – Imperial complexities: in pursuit of ‘provocative’ post-imperial analyses J.A. Mangan