Abstract

ESPARZA ONTIVEROS, Miguel Ángel. For Love of the Country: The Patriotic Sense of Athletics in United States, 1886-1918. Let. hist. [online]. 2016, n.15, pp.199-214. ISSN 2448-8372.

This paper explains how athletics were used as an element of integration of U.S. society through patriotic games, a format of sports competition that was organized to commemorate U.S. independence and also was exported to other places where it served as a seed for the introduction of athletics in other countries of the Americas.

Keywords : Patriotic Games; athletics; sport; nationalism; social cohesion.