| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sport in world history ; 2
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Sport in world history ; 2.
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| Summary |
Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Brazil -- History.
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Soccer. |
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Brazil. |
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History. |
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Soccer players -- Brazil -- History.
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Soccer players. |
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Brazil -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kittleson, Roger. Country of Football. University of California Press 2014 9780520279087 |
| ISBN |
9780520958258 (electronic book) |
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052095825X (electronic book) |
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1306498473 (e-book) |
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9781306498470 (e-book) |
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9780520279087 |
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0520279085 |
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9780520279094 |
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0520279093 |
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