The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil /

The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kittleson, Roger Alan
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Sport in world history ; 2.
Subjects:
Soccer > Brazil > History.
Soccer players > Brazil > History.
Brazil > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian
  • 2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958-70
  • 3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971-80
  • 4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s
  • 5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990-2010
  • Conclusion: Mega-Brazil.