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The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil
- Title
- The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil / Roger Kittleson.
- Author
- Kittleson, Roger Alan.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-3111 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 328 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In time for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup, this book uses the stories of star players and other key figures (based on over 40 interviews) to create a contemporary history of Brazilian soccer from the 1950s to the present. It also explores race and class tensions in Brazil and shows how soccer is central to the country's dramatic trajectory toward modernity and economic power"--
- Series Statement
- Sport in world history ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Sport in world history ; 2.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian -- 2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958-70 -- 3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971-80 -- 4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s -- 5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990-2010 -- Conclusion: Mega-Brazil.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-3111
- ISBN
- 9780520279087 (hardback)
- 0520279085 (hardback)
- 9780520279094 (pbk.)
- 0520279093 (pbk.)
- 9780520958258 (ebk.)
- 052095825X (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2013046594
- OCLC
- 861955188
- Author
- Kittleson, Roger Alan.
- Title
- The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil / Roger Kittleson.
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Sport in world history ; 2Sport in world history ; 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-3111