Citizens and Sportsmen : Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile /
Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, played every four years, draws an audience of more than a billion people and provides a global platform f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2011.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Rayando la Cancha-Marking the Field: Chilean Football, 1893-1919; Chapter Two. The Massive, Modern, and Marginalized in Football of the 1920s; Chapter Three. ""The White Elephant"": The National Stadium, Populism, and the Popular Front, 1933-1942; Chapter Four. The ""Latin Lions"" and the ""Dogs of Constantinople"": Immigrant Clubs, Ethnicity, and Racial Hierarchies in Football, 1920-1953; Chapter Five. ""Because We Have Nothing . . ."": The Radicalization of Amateurs and the World Cup of 1962.
- Chapter Six. The New Left, Popular Unity, and Football, 1963-1973Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; index.