Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago by Gerald R. Gems

Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago

American Sports History

Gerald R. Gems

280 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology sports medium-paced
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Windy City Wars traces how the assimilation process of various ethnic groups in Chicago was facilitated by participation in sports from 1830-1940. Gems analyzes how factors of religion, social class, politics, and ethnicity played out in the conte...

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