Contested Fields – A Global History of Modern Football Mcdougall Paperback

Contested Fields\nby Alan McDougall\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alan McDougall\nTitle: Contested Fields\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: General and world history\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781487594565\nISBN-10: 1487594569\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFew 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\u2019s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world\u2019s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe.\nCo.