A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history.
Автор: Lesay Jean-DamienНазвание: 1000 Football Clubs: Champions of the Beautiful GameISBN: 0789331101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789331106 Издательство: RizzoliРейтинг: Цена: 49500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The most in-depth guide to soccer clubs around the world, featuring 1,000 illustrations and more than 1,000 teams from 100 countries.
Автор: G. Edward WhiteНазвание: Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game`s Struggle for StatusISBN: 0826222536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826222534 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 37620.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Incorporating insights from sociology and economics, this book explores the multiple factors that have resulted in the sport of soccer struggling to achieve major status in America and why it currently has nothing like the cultural impact of other popular American sports.
Автор: Chris Bolsmann, George KioussisНазвание: Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913ISBN: 1621906124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621906124 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 54340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: The early history of soccer in the United States has received relatively little scholarly attention. While the sport's failure to make cultural inroads has been the source of much reflection and retrospection, other pastimes such as baseball, basketball, and American football have been covered far more extensively. Soccer Frontiers helps to fill this gap and correct the widespread notion that soccer was unfamiliar in the United States before the late twentieth century.Editors Chris Bolsmann and George N. Kioussis's collection sheds light on America's little-known soccer history by focusing on the game's presence in major American cities between 1863 and 1913. As waves of immigrants arrived and American cities began to industrialize and become sizable cultural hubs, soccer, too, began to flourish. With essays focused on the years between the Civil War and World War I—a period which saw the creation of both the English Football Association and the US Soccer Federation—this volume also offers diverse regional representation, moving from New England to the South to the West Coast.Soccer Frontiers seeks to identify the distinctive yet understudied traits of American soccer, thereby contributing an important missing piece to the broader puzzle of American sport history.
Автор: Gregg BockettiНазвание: The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern BrazilISBN: 0813064279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813064277 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 22530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Although the popular history of Brazilian football narrates a story of progress toward democracy and inclusion, it does not match the actual historical record. Instead, football can be understood as an invention of early twentieth century middle-class and wealthy Brazilians who called themselves “sportsmen” and nationalists, and used the sport as part of their larger campaigns to shape and reshape the nation. In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of football in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as “foot-ball” at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian “futebol,” o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti examines the popular depictions of the sport as having evolved from a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil's national identity known for its passion and creativity, and concludes that these mythologized narratives have obscured many of the complexities and the continuities of the history of football and of Brazil. Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer's effect on all parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Автор: Gregg BockettiНазвание: The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern BrazilISBN: 0813062551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062556 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 66840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as “football” at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian “futebol,” o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti examines the sport and its narratives, which usually depict soccer as having evolved from a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil’s national identity known for its passion and creativity, and explains the ways that the popular history of the game has obscured many of the complexities and the continuities of the history of soccer and of Brazil.Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer’s effect on all parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Автор: Ashwin DesaiНазвание: Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of PlaceISBN: 1869144465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781869144463 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 22570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the early 1960s, the city of Durban consolidated racially circumscribed group areas with brutal intensity. In the tiny enclave of Wentworth, designated a Coloured area, newly relocated residents made their homes and sought work in the numerous heavy industries that proliferated on its edges. As people built places of worship and newborn friendships reached across fences and staircases, soccer became the game of choice. Rudimentary pitches were marked out, cool drinks staked and the game unfolded with a mixture of delicate touches and bruising tackles. By the early 1970s, Wentworth’s ability to spawn soccer talent, headlined by the glamorous Leeds United, grew into the stuff of legend. Ashwin Desai digs deep into this history, bringing to life those who inspired and played the game when Wentworth was nothing more than a jumble of shacks and whitewashed blocks of flats, watched over by plumes of smoke from local factories that blackened the sky and slowly poisoned the body. The book’s power comes from its ability to keep its focus on soccer while situating the game in the broader social relations, as geography and history, spatial and temporal meld into a beguiling narrative. Page after page reveals writing of haunting power and sensitivity as memories are cajoled from ageing soccer legends and the interior lives of families are illuminated. It is an evocative exemplar of how community history should be brought to life.
Автор: John DechantНазвание: Scoreless: Omaha Central, Creighton Prep, and Nebraska`s Greatest High School Football GameISBN: 0803285728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803285729 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In October 1960, Omaha Central and Creighton Prep met for what many Nebraskans consider the greatest high school football game ever played. Future NFL Hall of Famer Gale Sayers scored seventy points while leading Central’s powerful offense through its first four games. Prep’s strong defense, on the other hand, allowed only twenty points all season. Legendary coaches patrolled both sidelines, and Prep was aiming for its third straight state championship. The stage was set for a Friday-night showdown. Fifteen thousand fans packed into Omaha’s Municipal Stadium to watch the early season championship clash. Stubborn defenses ensured parity. Back and forth the teams battled, mired around the 50-yard line, punt after punt soaring into the sky. With no overtime to settle things and the defenses holding fast, the game ended in a scoreless tie. When both teams won their remaining games, they shared the state title that year.Scoreless retells the details of this legendary game, the buildup to it, and the story behind the teams and their renowned coaches and players. It is the tale of one of the most remarkable football games in Nebraska high school sports history.
Автор: Andrew McIlwaine BellНазвание: The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became Dixie TraditionISBN: 0807171204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807171202 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 33400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: College football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private companies. Southern football fans worship their teams, often rearranging their personal lives in order to accommodate season schedules. The Origins of Southern College Football sheds new light on the South's obsession with football and explores the sport's beginnings below the Mason-Dixon Line in the decades after the Civil War. Military defeat followed by a long period of cultural unrest compelled many southerners to look to northern ideas and customs for guidance in rebuilding their beleaguered society. Ivy League universities, considered bastions of enlightenment and symbols of the modernizing spirit of the age, provided a particular source of inspiration for southerners in the form of organized or "scientific" football that featured standardized rules and scoring. Transported to the South by men educated at northern universities, scientific football reinforced cultural values that had existed in the region for centuries, among them a tolerance for violence, respect for martial displays, and support for traditional gender roles. The game also held the promise of a "New South" that its supporters hoped would transform the region into an industrial powerhouse. Students and townspeople alike embraced the new sport, which served as a source of pride for a region that lagged woefully behind its northern counterpart in terms of social equity and economic prowess.The Origins of Southern College Football is an entertaining history of the South's most popular sport cast against a broader narrative of the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, two momentous periods of change that gave rise to the game we recognize today.
Автор: Chad S. ConineНазвание: Republic of Football: Legends of the Texas High School GameISBN: 1477303715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477303719 Издательство: Wiley EDCРейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and teams from around the state and across seven decades.Drawing on dozens of interviews, Conine offers rare glimpses of the early days of some of football’s biggest stars. He reveals that some players took time to achieve greatness—LaDainian Tomlinson wasn’t even the featured running back on his high school team until a breakthrough game in his senior season vaulted him to the highest level of the sport—while others, like Colt McCoy, showed their first flashes of brilliance in middle school. In telling these and many other stories of players and coaches, including Hayden Fry, Spike Dykes, Bob McQueen, Lovie Smith, Art Briles, Lawrence Elkins, Warren McVea, Ray Rhodes, Dat Nguyen, Zach Thomas, Drew Brees, and Adrian Peterson, Conine spotlights the decisive moments when players caught fire and teams such as Celina, Southlake Carroll, and Converse Judson turned into Texas dynasties. Packed with never-before-told anecdotes, as well as fresh takes on the games everyone remembers, The Republic of Football is a must-read for all fans of Friday night lights.
Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and teams from around the state and across seven decades.
Drawing on dozens of interviews, Conine offers rare glimpses of the early days of some of football’s biggest stars. He reveals that some players took time to achieve greatness—LaDainian Tomlinson wasn’t even the featured running back on his high school team until a breakthrough game in his senior season vaulted him to the highest level of the sport—while others, like Colt McCoy, showed their first flashes of brilliance in middle school. In telling these and many other stories of players and coaches, including Hayden Fry, Spike Dykes, Bob McQueen, Lovie Smith, Art Briles, Lawrence Elkins, Warren McVea, Ray Rhodes, Dat Nguyen, Zach Thomas, Drew Brees, and Adrian Peterson, Conine spotlights the decisive moments when players caught fire and teams such as Celina, Southlake Carroll, and Converse Judson turned into Texas dynasties. Packed with never-before-told anecdotes, as well as fresh takes on the games everyone remembers, The Republic of Football is a must-read for all fans of Friday night lights.
Автор: Moore Gareth, FifaНазвание: The Fifa Football Puzzle Book: Tackle More Than 100 Puzzles Inspired by the World`s Most Beautiful GameISBN: 1787396002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787396005 Издательство: Carlton BooksРейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: An officially licensed FIFA publication, that includes puzzles based on all aspects of the game, from classics like Spot the Ball or Be the Ref, to logic puzzles based on league positions and action puzzles based on the action on the pitch.
Название: Football FreakingISBN: 1840467533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781840467536 Издательство: TBS/GBSРейтинг: Цена: 9230.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Young David has a school assignment to learn about Beethoven and his music. Fortunately, his grandfather can not only play Beethovens music for him, but he can also tell David the story of Beethovens life. David learns that Beethoven learned to play piano at age four and kept composing music his whole life, even after losing his hearing. David cant help but appreciate the man and his music, which people have been listening to and enjoying for more than 200 years.
Автор: Sperry, Len Sperry, JonНазвание: Critical Issues in FootballISBN: 1032183098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032183091 Издательство: Taylor&FrancisРейтинг: Цена: 132710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world`s favourite sport.
