Offside
Soccer and American Exceptionalism
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 most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, taking us on a thoughtful and engaging tour of America's sports culture and connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. In so doing, it offers a comparative analysis of sports cultures in the industrial societies of North America an…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hellerman, Steven L.
- ISBN: 978-0-691-07447-4
- EAN: 9780691074474
- Produktnummer: 9378560
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 366 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 589 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 589
Über den Autor
Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
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