The Ball is Round: A Global History of SoccerPenguin, 2. 1. 2008. - 992 страница The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself. |
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... organized into rulebound contests, and China came to all of these things early. In the initial attempts by nationalist historians of the 1920s and 1930s to write a Chinese history of sport these truths were applied to football.2 Claims ...
... organized into rulebound contests, and China came to all of these things early. In the initial attempts by nationalist historians of the 1920s and 1930s to write a Chinese history of sport these truths were applied to football.2 Claims ...
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... organized: light and dark, day and night, good and evil, life and death. Its chief protagonists are the hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The twin's forefathers were the brothers Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu. Both were ball players of ...
... organized: light and dark, day and night, good and evil, life and death. Its chief protagonists are the hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The twin's forefathers were the brothers Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu. Both were ball players of ...
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... organized. The patron deity of the Aztec game was Xolotl who appeared in the night sky as Venus, and players appear in murals as representatives of other cosmic bodies. Statuettes and carvings show that the game was often accompanied or ...
... organized. The patron deity of the Aztec game was Xolotl who appeared in the night sky as Venus, and players appear in murals as representatives of other cosmic bodies. Statuettes and carvings show that the game was often accompanied or ...
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... organized violence for their social status, political power and economic wellbeing. The most powerful technology of war was the mounted, armoured knight and such force could not be conjured from a rural peasant levy or standing army; it ...
... organized violence for their social status, political power and economic wellbeing. The most powerful technology of war was the mounted, armoured knight and such force could not be conjured from a rural peasant levy or standing army; it ...
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... organized sport. The arrival of thoroughbred Arabian bloodstock in the early eighteenth century provided both a different calibre of horse and a huge incentive for monitored, selective breeding and record keeping. Permanent race courses ...
... organized sport. The arrival of thoroughbred Arabian bloodstock in the early eighteenth century provided both a different calibre of horse and a huge incentive for monitored, selective breeding and record keeping. Permanent race courses ...
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The International | |
The Commercialization | |
International Football and International | |
Latin American Football 19351954 | |
João Havelange FIFA and | |
The European Crisis 19741990 | |
Football under the Latin American | |
Africa 19741990 | |
19902006 | |
Football in the Americas 19902006 | |
Football and Asias New Industrial | |
Football in Africa after the Cold War 19902006 | |
European Football in War | |
Latin American Football 19551974 | |
High Industrial Football in Europe | |
Football in Africa | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgements | |
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