{"product_id":"berlin-sports-spectacle-recreation-and-media-in-germanys-metropolis-9781682262566","title":"Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis","description":"In many American cities, individual athletes, professional teams, and university sports are integral to the cities' sporting identities. Berlin, in contrast, features no single hallmark sport, team, or annual event. Five political regimes, wartime destruction, and four decades of division instead fostered ever-changing teams, allegiances, and venues. Yet, the desire to play and watch sport continued unabated across these political watersheds.\u003ci\u003e Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e explores the history of sport in Berlin from the late nineteenth- to the early twenty-first centuries against the backdrop of the city's sharp political shifts, diverse populations, and status as a major metropolis with both regional and global resonance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book begins with a long-distance equestrian race in the 1890s and continues with the role of media in spectacle, celebrity, urban life, and gender from the 1890s to the 1920s.It then turns to grassroots sport participation and spectatorship as well as sport diplomacy at the elite international level during the postwar period and the years of German division. Next, it explores recreational sport associations within the context of immigration and youth counterculture. It concludes with the 2015 European Maccabi Games, an international Jewish sports festival through which Berlin sought to grapple with the infamous 1936 Olympics and showcase Berlin as a cosmopolitan and multicultural city. Taken together, the book's scholarly essays on all of these sporting endeavors reveal the rich and varied sporting culture in Berlin and yield fresh insights into spectacle, recreation, and media in the city. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682262566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Heather L. Dichter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44625853808821,"sku":"9781682262566","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_14172374-b401-4b7b-970f-72b735bf5769.jpg?v=1725978422","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/berlin-sports-spectacle-recreation-and-media-in-germanys-metropolis-9781682262566","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}