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Rader, Benjamin Gene was born on August 25, 1935 in Delaware, Missouri, United States. Son of Lowell Leslie and Lydia Eddings Rader.
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Completely updated and revised, American Sports sets sports in a social-cultural historical context. This highly-acclaimed book offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. With a focus on the historical relationship between sports, and gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and region, this book considers how sports transcend these fundamental categories, and how the experience of sports either as a player or as a fan can bind diverse groups together. This book also looks at how sports at various historical moments have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society
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(Examine American sports in a social-cultural historical c...)
Examine American sports in a social-cultural historical context American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society. A comprehensive revision to the 7th edition preserves the detailed coverage of sports history while incorporating recent scholarship and expanded treatment of the challenges and dilemmas of twenty-first century sports. Greater attention is given to the sporting activities of women, African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.
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Rader, Benjamin Gene was born on August 25, 1935 in Delaware, Missouri, United States. Son of Lowell Leslie and Lydia Eddings Rader.
Student, University Wichita, 1956. Bachelor, Southwest Missouri State College, 1958. Master of Arts, Oklahoma State University, 1959.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1964.
Tool and die maker Boeing Aircraft Company, Wichita, 1953-1956. Instructor Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1961-1962. From instructor to assistant professor University Montana, Missoula, 1962-1966.
From associate professor to professor University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1966-1996, James L. Sellers professor history, since 1996. Joint editor sport and society series University Illinois Press, Urbana, since 1985.
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Member Park and Recreation Board, Lincoln, 1981-1987. Member North America Association Sport Historians (Betts Honorary Address since 1976), Organization of America Historians.
Married Barbara Anne Koch, June 10, 1961. Children: Anne Elizabeth, Stephen Lowell.