The age of football : soccer and the 21st century
Book |
First American edition. |
W. W. Norton & Company,
New York :
2020.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Centennial | SPORTS GOLDB 2020 | Sports | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
"A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time-by its preeminent historian. In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in the world. [The author] ... charts the sport's global cultural ascent, economic transformation, and deep politicization. With breathtaking scope and unparalleled knowledge of the game, [this book] explores soccer's vital role in our social, political, and economic lives: its connections to social discord in the Middle East and political division in Europe; the reasons behind its surprising surge in popularity in China, India, and the United States; and its use (and misuse) in the global advance of equality and human rights. [The author] proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can't make sense of the modern world without understanding its most popular sport"--
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Details
- ISBN: 9780393635119
- Physical Description: print551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019.
- General Note: "First published in the UK by Macmillan Publishers International Limited under the title The age of football : the global game in the twenty-first century"--Copyright page.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-521) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Football is first -- The living and the dead : Afro football fever -- Regime vs street vs mosque : three-sided football in the Middle East -- From the left wing : South American fútbol and the pink tide -- This storm is what we call progress : football and the European project -- Continental drift : the fragmented worlds of Asian football -- Trouble in paradise : football in the Americas -- The game beyond the game : the fall of the house of Blatter -- Back in the USSR? Football in Putin's Russia -- Conclusion: The global Potemkin village : World Cup 2018.