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Offside : : Soccer and American Exceptionalism / / Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman.

Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Markovits, Andrei S.,
Hellerman, Steven L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Arbor, Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2001
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 5 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Argument: Sports As Culture in Industrial Societies
  • 2. The Formation of the American Sport Space
  • 3. Soccer's Trials and Tribulations
  • 4. The Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
  • 5. From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer
  • 6. The World Cup in the United States
  • 7. The Coverage of World Cup '98 by the American Media and the Tournament's Reception by the American Public
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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