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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas AielloPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9781538199947ISBN 10: 1538199947 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 15 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPrologue CHAPTER 1: Muscular Christianity CHAPTER 2: Professionalizing the Amateur Game CHAPTER 3: The Negro Leagues CHAPTER 4: Early Collegiate Basketball CHAPTER 5: The Growth of the Women’s Game CHAPTER 6: Mid-Century Scandal CHAPTER 7: The Birth of the NBA CHAPTER 8: Integration CHAPTER 9: Race and Civil Rights CHAPTER 10: The ABA and the Merger CHAPTER 11: Magic and Larry CHAPTER 12: The Jordan Rules CHAPTER 13: College Basketball at the Millennium CHAPTER 14: The Rise of Women’s Basketball CHAPTER 15: The NBA in the 21st Century Epilogue Bibliographic EssayReviewsArguing that the court “embod[ies] conflicts over class, race, and gender, and serv[es] as a public theater for them,” he offers an impressive overview of the game—from its invention in the late 19th century through the rise of pro teams, and the impacts of Title IX and ESPN. The sections on basketball’s early days—including the struggles by Black and female athletes to break into the sport—are especially valuable. * Publishers Weekly * Sports historians have long hoped for a grand basketball narrative that appeals equally well to scholarly and popular audiences and centers the game at the heart of the American experience, alongside baseball and football- two sports that have elicited far more scholarly attention. Thomas Aiello has finally written that book. It comes in the form of a concise yet sweeping narrative that traces basketball's evolution, both at the college and professional levels, from its origin and early development in the 1890s, through its mid-twentieth-century maturation, and to its ascent as a premier professional sport, embodied by the post-1970s National Basketball Association (NBA).... [This book is] the most comprehensive and all-around best historical overview yet written about American Basketball and is a volume that no sports historian or basketball enthusiast should do without. * Great Plains Quarterly * Hoops is more than a history of basketball; it's a cultural history of modern America with basketball as the protagonist. Aiello connects basketball to broader historical issues of race and gender, extraordinarily presenting the material in profoundly relevant and refreshingly readable ways. This book includes impressive storytelling, authentic cultural critique, and ends with a unique bibliographic essay more comprehensive than anything anywhere else. -- Dr. Chad Carlson, Hope College Associate Professor of Kinesiology/Director of General Education, Author of Making March Madness: The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951 Using basketball as a central theme, Aiello provides a wonderful overview of cultural life in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries...[his] enthusiasm for basketball shines boldly through as he spins a great story. -- Murry R. Nelson, Professor Emeritus of Education and American Studies, Penn State University, Author, The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball Author InformationThomas Aiello is a professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He is the author of several books including Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979 (Tennessee) Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana, and The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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