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Goal!: A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football
Fabian Brändle
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Description for Goal!: A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football
Paperback. Covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBS; WSBX; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and Arsenal. They also explore how the age of amateur soccer ended and, ... Read more
Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and Arsenal. They also explore how the age of amateur soccer ended and, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813227276
SKU
V9780813227276
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Ref
99-50
About Fabian Brändle
Christian Köller is director of the Swiss Social Archives and adjunct professor of modern history at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Fabian Brändle works for the Atelier for Direct Democracy at St. Ursanne (Switzerland).
Reviews for Goal!: A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football
This fascinating history of football in its social and cultural context offers many fresh insights. Grounded in sound scholarship, but written in an engaging and accessible style, it will be of considerable interest to football fans as well as being a core text for courses in sports history.""- Wyn Grant, University of Warwick and coeditor of The Transformation of European ... Read more