Contested Fields
A Global History of Modern Football
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2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-9456-5 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-9456-5 (ISBN)
Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game’s controversial path to global pre-eminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world – as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance.
Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe.
Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football’s transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football’s international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation.
Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe.
Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football’s transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football’s international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation.
Alan McDougall is a professor of History at the University of Guelph.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Modern Football: A Timeline
1. Introduction
2. Migrations
3. Money
4. Competitions
5. Gender
6. Race
7. Spaces
8. Spectators
9. Confrontations
10. Conclusion
Appendix: FIFA Member Associations
Select Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | International Themes and Issues |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b&w tables |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 213 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-9456-9 / 1487594569 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-9456-5 / 9781487594565 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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