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Following the ball : the migration of African soccer players across the Portuguese colonial empire, 1949-1975 /

"With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cleveland, Todd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017.
Colección:Ohio RIS global series ; 16
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Foundations
  • The introduction and consumption of soccer in Lusophone Africa
  • ch. 2 Engaging with the game
  • African practitioners in the colonies
  • ch. 3 Following the ball, realizing a goal
  • From the colonies to the metropole
  • ch. 4 Successes, setbacks, and strategies
  • Football and life in the metropole
  • ch. 5 Calculated conciliation
  • Apoliticism in a politically charged context.