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The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Paulo Fontes
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Description for The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Paperback. How football shapes Brazil and how Brazilians have changed global football are the twin themes in this vividly written history. The Country of Football Gives an insight into the political significance of football in the 2014 FIFA World Cup's host nation and provides a wider perspective on the sport's role in society. Editor(s): Fontes, Paulo; Hollando, Bernardo Borges Buarque de. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHBS; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 414.
Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between football, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and ... Read more
Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between football, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849044172
SKU
V9781849044172
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Ref
99-5
About Paulo Fontes
Paulo Fontes is an associate professor at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (CPDOC/FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He was a Visiting Professor at Duke (2004) and Princeton (2006/7) Universities. His book on immigrant workers in Sao Paolo won the first Thomas E. Skidmore Prize. Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda holds a PhD in the Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic ... Read more
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