The age of football : the global game in the twenty-first century
Goldblatt, David, 1965-2019
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In the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. In the three most populous nations on the earth - China, India and the United States where just twenty years ago football existed on the periphery of society - it has now arrived for good. Nations, peoples and neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through playing and following the game. David Goldblatt charts football's global cultural ascent, its economic transformation and deep politicisation, taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies of Bolivia's Evo Morales and Turkey's Recep Erdogan, China's declared intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050.
Main title:
The age of football : the global game in the twenty-first century / David Goldblatt.
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Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2019.London : Macmillan, 2019.
Collation:
676 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509854240 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.334
Language:
English
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BRN:
2209585