The ball is round A global history of soccer
Book - 2008
Traces the history of the world's most popular sport from its earliest origins to the present day, looking at the game in terms of its political, cultural, and social roles in countries around the world.
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- Published
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New York :
Riverhead Books
2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition
- Physical Description
- 974 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 922-929) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781594482960
- Foreword to the American Edition
- Introduction: Life and Death, Love and Money
- Part 1. Ancients and Moderns: Football and the Invention of Modern from the Beginning to 1914
- 1. Chasing Shadows: The Prehistory of Football
- 2. The Simplest Game: Britain and the Invention of Modern Football
- 3. An Altogether More Splendid Life: Industrial Football and Working-class Britain, 1888-1914
- Part 2. The People's Game: Football, Empire and Industry, 1870-1934
- 4. Perfidious Albion: The Resistible Rise of Global Football
- 5. The Great Game and the Informal Empire: The International Spread of Football, 1870-1914
- 6. Pay Up, Pay Up and Play the Game: The Commercialization of Global Football, 1914-1934
- 7. The Rules of the Game: International Football and International Politics, 1900-1934
- Part 3. The Beautiful Game: Football's Short Twentieth Century, 1934-1974
- 8. The Road to El Dorado: Latin American Football, 1935-1954
- 9. Games of Life, Games of Death: European Football in War and Peace, 1934-1954
- 10. Demons and Angels: Latin American Football? 1955-1974
- 11. The Glamour and the Glory: High Industrial Football in Europe, 1955-1974
- 12. We Can Show Them Who is Really Superior: Football in Africa, 1900-1974
- Part 4. Things Fall Apart: Football after the Long Boom, 1974-1990
- 13. The World Turned Upside Down: Joao Havelange, FIFA and the Transformation of Global Football
- 14. If This is Football, Let It Die: The European Crisis, 1974-1990
- 15. Military Manouvers: Football under the Latin American Generals, 1974-1990
- 16. Football and the Belly: Africa, 1974-1990
- Part 5. The Only Game: Football and the End of History, 1990-2006
- 17. Football through the Looking-Glass: Europe, 1990-2006
- 18. The Crisis Will be Televised; Football in the Americas, 1990-2006
- 19. Accelerated Development: Football and Asia's New Industrial Revolution
- 20. Small Mercies: Football in Africa after the Cold War, 1990-2006
- Conclusion: The Game at the End of the World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index