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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Ohio RIS global series ; 16
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. |
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"With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal's increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eus衩o, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal's empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players' transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Foundations -- Introduction and Consumption of Soccer in Lusophone Africa -- ch. 2 Engaging with the Game -- African Practitioners in the Colonies -- ch. 3 Following the Ball, Realizing a Goal -- From the Colonies to the Metropole -- ch. 4 Successes, Setbacks, and Strategies -- Football and Life in the Metropole -- ch. 5 Calculated Conciliation -- Apoliticism in a Politically Charged Context. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century.
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Soccer. |
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Portugal. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Soccer players -- Africa, Portuguese-speaking -- History -- 20th century.
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Soccer players. |
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Portuguese-speaking Africa. |
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Portugal -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
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Emigration and immigration. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cleveland, Todd. Following the ball. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017 9780896803138 (DLC) 2017024500 (OCoLC)982091678 |
| ISBN |
9780896804999 (electronic book) |
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0896804992 (electronic book) |
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9780896803138 |
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0896803139 |
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9780896803145 |
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0896803147 |
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