Contested Fields - A Global History of Modern Football

Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game’s controversial path to global pre-eminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world - as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Modern Football: A Timeline
1. Introduction
2. Migrations
3. Money
4. Competitions
5. Gender
6. Race
7. Spaces
8. Spectators
9. Confrontations
10. Conclusion
Appendix: FIFA Member Associations
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alan McDougall is a professor of History at the University of Guelph.

Summary

Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game’s controversial path to global pre-eminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world – as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Mcdougall
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781487594565
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-9456-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: International Themes and Issues; International Themes and Issue
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Geschichte, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Sports & Recreation, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football