Allen Guttmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Guttmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Guttmann |
| SIGNATURE | GUTTMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
The principal dreamers in Barry Siegel's narrative of Los Angeles's successful bid to host the 1932 Olympic Games are the real estate mogul William May Garland, his close friend Harry Chandler, the owner and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and Pierre de Coubertin, the French baron whose life work was the creation of the modern Olympic Games. It turns out that all three dreamers were also, to one degree or another, schemers. For Garland and Ch…
Das Olympische Dorf von 1936: Planung, Bau und Nutzungsgeschichte
Book Review| April 01 2017 Das Olympische Dorf von 1936: Planung, Bau und Nutzungsgeschichte Hübner, Emanuel. Das Olympische Dorf von 1936: Planung, Bau und Nutzungsgeschichte. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015. Pp. 636. 49.90€, hb. Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (1): 111–112. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.1.0111 Cite Icon Ci…
Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
Michael J. Socolow tells the story of the University of Washington's eight-oared shell's victory in the two-thousand-meter final race at the 1936 Olympics rowing regatta—an achievement that the CBS reporter Bill Henry hyped as the “outstanding victory” of the Berlin games (p. 5). Socolow's rowing story is contextualized within two other stories: the still-controversial “Nazi Olympics” and the revolution in modern radio sportscasting that occurred…
Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos
Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(6-7), pp. 765–766
Form as Content, or, It's All Style
How we say what we say is a part of what we say. In this sense, the form and the content of a statement are inseparable. Style matters semiotically as well as aesthetically. These three assertions are supported by a series of examples from a wide range of verbal and non-verbal sports-historical texts. This characterisation served me as a salutary reminder of Robert Burns's poetic remark that we should ‘see ourselves as others see us’.Notes 1.Cita…
Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe / Le Sport dans la Civilisation de l’Europe Pré-Moderne
Book Review| July 01 2011 Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe / Le Sport dans la Civilisation de l’Europe Pré-Moderne McClelland, John and Brian Merrilees, eds. Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe / Le Sport dans la Civilisation de l’Europe Pré-Moderne. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2010. Pp. 436. Notes, bibliographies, illustrations, author backgrounds, and in…
Does Clio Need Help? A Plea for a More Extensive Use of Literary and Visual Texts 1
For decades there was been a debate, especially about German Scholars, over the discipline of sports studies. Is it indeed a discipline or merely the intersection of history, sociology, and a number of other established disciplinees? Assuming the latter, it behooves everyone engaged in sports history to take seriously not only popular culture's representations of sports but also ‘‘high cultural’’ interpretations by writers and artists. Ernest Him…
Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian
Historiography on the intersection of sport and politics is a vast field within which six major areas can be identified. 1. German, Italian and — to a lesser extent — Japanese historians have written extensively about the role of sports under fascist regimes. 2. There have also been numerous efforts to analyse the role of sport in communist societies (as well as considerable attention to `workers' sports' in the 1920s and 1930s). 3. Many historia…
From Iran to All of Asia: The Origin and Diffusion of Polo
(2002). From Iran to All of Asia: The Origin and Diffusion of Polo. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 384-400
The Development of Modern Sports
Sacred, inspired authority: D. H. Lawrence, literature and the fascist body
Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Journal Article Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-02-901315-1.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1588–1589, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism
Journal Article Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii, 275 pp. $24.50, ISBN 0-231-10042-6.) Get access Ronald A. Smith Ronald A. Smith Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 780–781, https://doi.o…
Amères victoires: Les sportifs noirs et le rêve américain de mobilité socialeTraduit de l’anglais par Dominique Blanc
Aux Etats-unis, l'histoire du sportif noir est généralement présentée sous la forme d'un récit en trois parties : l'exclusion, la lutte et l'intégration. Après une longue période de discrimination au cours de laquelle les Afro-Américains furent plus ou moins exclus des sports amateurs et professionnels, un temps de protestation est venu, bref mais intense, qui n'a pas abouti à une simple intégration raciale mais à une surreprésentation des sporti…
Games and Empires. Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism
The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
Journal Article The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games. By Allen Guttmann. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xii + 191 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-01701-3.) Get access Steven W. Pope Steven W. Pope University of Maine, Orono, Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 710, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079971 Published: 01 September 199…
Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt
Chariot Races, Tournaments and the Civilizing Process
To the many halls, chambers, nooks and crannies of historical experience there is no single theoretical password. For some rooms, one says 'Marx' and the door swings open. For others, one says 'Weber' or 'Durkheim' or 'Freud'. For some, the magic name seems to be 'Elias'. This, at least, has been my experience. The reference to my own experience is intentional. Although positivistic social science frowns upon the use of personal pronouns, it is s…
Women's Sports
Women's Sports: A History
Women's Sports: A History
Journal Article Women's Sports: A History. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xiii + 339 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-231-06956-1.) Get access Women's Sports: A History. By Guttmann Allen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xiii + 339 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-23106956-1.) Joanna Davenport Joanna Davenport Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy over Leftism in Literature
The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor
Sports Diffusion: A Response to Maguire and the Americanization Commentaries
In response to the recent collection of articles on sports diffusion, some generalizations are in order. While a number of factors determine the processes of ludic diffusion, the most important of them is the relative political, economic, and culture power of the nations involved. The power vectors are usually, but not always, aligned. Cultural imperialism is a useful term to apply to these processes if one remembers that politically and economic…
Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment
The Games Must Go On: Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement
Journal Article The Games Must Go On: Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xvii + 317 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access Richard D. Mandell Richard D. Mandell University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 2, September 1984, Page 414, https…
Sports Diffusion: A Response to Maguire and the Americanization Commentaries
In response to the recent collection of articles on sports diffusion, some generalizations are in order. While a number of factors determine the processes of ludic diffusion, the most important of them is the relative political, economic, and culture power of the nations involved. The power vectors are usually, but not always, aligned. Cultural imperialism is a useful term to apply to these processes if one remembers that politically and economic…
The Cold War and the Olympics
From 1952 to 1988, from the games held at Helsinki to those just completed in Seoul, one of the most dramatic aspects of the modern Olympics has been the sports rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Propagandists on both sides of the Iron Curtain have presented the competition between Russian and American athletes as a portentous symbolic struggle between two ideological systems. As the games have become increasingly important i…
Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian
Historiography on the intersection of sport and politics is a vast field within which six major areas can be identified. 1. German, Italian and — to a lesser extent — Japanese historians have written extensively about the role of sports under fascist regimes. 2. There have also been numerous efforts to analyse the role of sport in communist societies (as well as considerable attention to `workers' sports' in the 1920s and 1930s). 3. Many historia…
From Iran to All of Asia: The Origin and Diffusion of Polo
(2002). From Iran to All of Asia: The Origin and Diffusion of Polo. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 384-400
Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Journal Article Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-02-901315-1.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1588–1589, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War
Amères victoires: Les sportifs noirs et le rêve américain de mobilité socialeTraduit de l’anglais par Dominique Blanc
Aux Etats-unis, l'histoire du sportif noir est généralement présentée sous la forme d'un récit en trois parties : l'exclusion, la lutte et l'intégration. Après une longue période de discrimination au cours de laquelle les Afro-Américains furent plus ou moins exclus des sports amateurs et professionnels, un temps de protestation est venu, bref mais intense, qui n'a pas abouti à une simple intégration raciale mais à une surreprésentation des sporti…
The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
Journal Article The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games. By Allen Guttmann. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xii + 191 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-01701-3.) Get access Steven W. Pope Steven W. Pope University of Maine, Orono, Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 710, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079971 Published: 01 September 199…
The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity
The American Image of the Old World
The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor
On the Alleged Dehumanization of the Sports Spectator
Washington Irving and the Conservative Imagination
A S LONG AGo as I93I, Henry S. Canby characterized Washington tE Irving as arch-Federalist American literature.'l Henry A. Pochmann, repeating Canby's phrase, agreed that Irving was more Federalist than the Federalists.2 Stanley T. Williams's twovolume Life Washington Irving (1935) provided much information on young Irving's predominantly Federalist environment and much evidence to substantiate earlier judgments the anti-Jeffersonian satire in Sa…
Copley, Peale, Trumbull: A Note on Loyalty
Copley, Peale, Trumbull: A Note on Loyalty
Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee: Affirmation of the Vernacular Tradition
Form and Fable in American Fiction
Images of Value and the Sense of the Past
The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War
The Wound in the Heart: American and the Spanish Civil War
Journal Article The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. xii + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access Robert A. Divine Robert A. Divine Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 4, March 1963, Pa…
The American Image of the Old World
Washington Irving and the Conservative Imagination
A S LONG AGo as I93I, Henry S. Canby characterized Washington tE Irving as arch-Federalist American literature.'l Henry A. Pochmann, repeating Canby's phrase, agreed that Irving was more Federalist than the Federalists.2 Stanley T. Williams's twovolume Life Washington Irving (1935) provided much information on young Irving's predominantly Federalist environment and much evidence to substantiate earlier judgments the anti-Jeffersonian satire in Sa…
George Taylor: A Personal Note
From Brownson to Eliot: The Conservative Theory of Church and State
The Wound in the Heart. America and the Spanish Civil War
Books reviewed
The Labor Revolution. By Gus. Tyler. New York: The Viking Press, 1967. History of the Chicago Urban League. By Arvarh E. Strickland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1966. 286 pp. $7.50. Socialism and the Workers in Massachusetts, 1886–1912. By Henry F. Bedford. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. 1966. 315 pp. 16.50. Profiles of Eleven. By Melech Epstein. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1965. 379 pp. $8.95. Labor and Libe…
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Journal Article The Abraham Lincoln Brigade. By Arthur H. Landis. (New York: Citadel, 1967. XX + 677 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, September 1967, Pages 446–447, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894876 Published: 01 September 1967
Say That We Saw Spain Die: Literary Consequences of the Spanish Civil War
The Conservative Tradition in America
The Conservative Tradition in America
Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties
The Conservative Tradition in America
Protest against the War in Vietnam
Dissatisfaction with American policy in Vietnam has increased from early criticism by the Left to the point where nearly two-thirds of the people have expressed their disap proval. This dissent is undoubtedly one factor in President Johnson's decision not to seek re-election. Protest by the Right is based on the conviction that the Johnson administra tion has refused to seek "victory" in Vietnam. Protest from the Center and Left is more complicat…
The Conservative Tradition in America
Journal Article The Conservative Tradition in America. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. viii + 214 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $6.00.) Get access John Tomsich John Tomsich Reed College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 3, December 1970, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917986 Published: 01 December 1970
American Studies at Amherst
The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel
The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through his appearance in the nineteenth-centu…
The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity
Journal Article The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. x + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $7.95.) Get access Hyman Berman Hyman Berman University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 480–481, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890276 Publ…
City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970
The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity
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