Book Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress PDF Download - Shaun Scott
Download ebook ➡ http://get-pdfs.com/pl/book/692525/833
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
Shaun Scott
Page: 280
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780295751993
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Download or Read Online Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Free Book (PDF ePub Mobi) by Shaun Scott
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott PDF, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Epub, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Read Online, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Audiobook, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott VK, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Kindle, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Epub VK, Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress Shaun Scott Free Download
Overview
To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest to become even greater—if only it could get out of its own way. Heartbreak City was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
A Michael J. Repass Book