Global Spread of Football From the 1860s to the 1880s

This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Intercultural Transfer of
Football; Chapter 2: The English Cradle of Modern Football; Chapter 3:
From Rugby and Eaton to Braunschweig and Kornthal; Chapter 4: From
Kornthal to Yale and Harvard; Chapter 5: From Edinburgh to Buenos Aires;
Chapter 6: Shedding its English Shells

About the author

 Thomas Adam is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Adam
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781839987205
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-720-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Intercultural Transfer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous