The Kingdom of Golf in America

Name: The Kingdom of Golf in America
Brand: Nebraska
SKU: 9780803244825-V
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By Moss, Richard J

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For golf’s true enthusiasts, the game is far more-and far more complex-than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler. From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community. Moss describes the development of the private club and public course and the impact of wealth and the consumer culture on those who play golf and those who watch. He shows that factors like race, gender, technology, suburbanization, and the transformation of the South that shaped the nation also shaped golf. The result is a unique, and uniquely entertaining, work of cultural history that shows us golf as a community whose story resonates far beyond the confines of the course.

Product details

Number of Pages:

400

Release Date:

2013-06-01

Publication Date:

2013-06-01

Publisher:

Nebraska

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0803244827

ISBN13:

9780803244825

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

726 g

Height:

164 cm

Width:

234 cm

Thickness:

32 cm

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