Contested Fields – A Global History of Modern Football Mcdougall Hardback

Contested FieldsA Global History of Modern Football\nAuthor(s): Alan McDougall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487594572, 978-1487594572\nSynopsis\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 Britains formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and [url] football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the worlds most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe. \n\n Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on footballs 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 el.