Golf and the American Country Club

出版者:Univ of Illinois Pr

作者:Moss, Richard

页数:232

出版时间:2007-12

价格:$ 23.67

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780252074134

In this entertaining cultural history, Moss explores the circumstances that led to the establishment of the country club as an American social institution and its inextricable connection to the ancient, imported game of golf. Moss traces the evolution of country clubs from informal groups

of golf-playing friends to "country estates" in the suburbs and eventually into public and private daily-fee courses, corporate country clubs, and gated golfing communities. The book shows how these developments reflect shifts in American values and attitudes toward health and sport, as well as changing social dynamics.