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Thomas W. Zeiler Ambassadors in Pinstripes (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Ambassadors in Pinstripes
- Title
- Ambassadors in Pinstripes
- Subtitle
- The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Em
- ISBN-10
- 0742551687
- EAN
- 9780742551688
- ISBN
- 9780742551688
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 09/22/2006
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Ambassadors in Pinstripes : the Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Civilization, Baseball / History, Globalization, United States / 19th Century, Baseball / General, General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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In this lively chronicle of the 1888-1889 Spalding world baseball tour, Thomas Zeiler examines the roots of the post-1898 American empire by analyzing the ways in which the tour drew on elements of globalization to inject American values, and thus, power into the international arena. As Zeiler follows the players on each leg of their journey, he explores important elements of globalization: the business ethic, technological innovation, racial hierarchy, attempts at Americanization abroad, and promotion of an exceptionalist identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0742551687
ISBN-13
9780742551688
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63718672
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ambassadors in Pinstripes : the Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Civilization, Baseball / History, Globalization, United States / 19th Century, Baseball / General, General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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Trade
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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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Join SBig 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., 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., 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., 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.
Lccn
2006-012901
Lc Classification Number
Gv863.A1z44 2006
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2006
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