The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil

The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil
ISBN-10
0813062551
ISBN-13
9780813062556
Category
History
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
Gregg Bocketti

Description

"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian 'futebol,' o jogo bonito (the beautiful game), in the twentieth century and beyond"--Provided by publishe

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