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New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy
Contributor(s): Aiello, Thomas (Author)

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 ISBN: 168226100X     ISBN-13: 9781682261002
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
Dewey: 796.097
LCCN: 2018054039
Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (1.20 lbs) 325 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Cultural Region - South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city's culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural m lange also manifests in the city's approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city's history.

Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city's sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business development to expand that historiography--currently dominated by a text that stops at 1900--into the twentieth century, offering a modern examination of sports in the city.
 
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