Description |
1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Sport and society
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Sport and society.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Indigenous football in North America -- The schoolboys' game -- Manly games of celebration and escape -- Steel City soccer -- Soccer goes pro -- Collen Bawns and Bonnie Lassies -- Women and soccer in the early twentieth century -- Soccer goes to war -- Ethnic and industrial soccer. |
Summary |
"Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States-and the beautiful game's transformation into a truly international sport. 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Soccer -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Soccer. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Soccer -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Soccer -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Soccer -- Social aspects. |
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SPORTS & RECREATION / General. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bunk, Brian D., 1968- From football to soccer Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. 9780252043888 (DLC) 2020055747 |
ISBN |
9780252052781 electronic book |
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0252052781 electronic book |
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9780252043888 hardcover |
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9780252085871 paperback |
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