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1 online resource (502 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Early Days of Football in Brazil: British Influence and Factory Clubs in Sao Paulo / Fatima Martin Rodrigues Ferreira Antunes -- 2. Malandros, ̀Honourable Workers' and the Professionalisation of Brazilian Football, 1930 -- 1950 / Gregory E. Jackson -- 3. Football in the Rio Grande Do Sul Coal Mines / Marta Cioccari -- 4. Futebol De Varzea and the Working Class: Amateur Football Clubs in Sao Paulo, 1940s -- 1960s / Paulo Fontes -- 5. The ̀People's Joy' Vanishes: Meditations on the Death of Garrincha / Jose Sergio Leite Lopes -- 6. Football as a Profession: Origins, Social Mobility and the World of Work of Brazilian Footballers, 1950s -- 1980s / Clement Astruc -- 7. Dictatorship, Re-Democratisation and Brazilian Football in the 1970s and 1980s / Jose Paulo Florenzano -- 8. Public Power, the Nation and Stadium Policy in Brazil: The Construction and Reconstruction of the Maracana Stadium for the World Cups of 1950 and 2014 / Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda |
| Summary |
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between soccer, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian na |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Political aspects -- Brazil -- History
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Soccer -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- History
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Soccer -- Political aspects
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Soccer -- Social aspects
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Brazil
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Hollanda, Bernardo Buarque
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| ISBN |
9781849044172 |
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1849044171 |
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