Sports in South America : a history / Matthew Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Matthew, 1975- author.

Series:

Yale scholarship online.

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--South America--History.

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Sports in South America follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting of the first FIFA Men's World Cup in 1930. Matthew Brown shows how South American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies that were already playing and watching games well before British sportsmen arrived to teach 'the beautiful game'. These vibrant and distinct sporting traditions, including cycling, boxing, cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, and horse racing, were marked by South American societies' Indigenous and colonial pasts and by their leaders' desire to participate in what they saw as a global movement toward human progress.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Sports in South American History

PART ONE: THE BEGINNINGS OF SPORTS

1 Sports from the Margins

2 Colonial Sports

3 The Pioneering British

4 Education

5 Clubs

6 The Sports Business

PART TWO: THE ENDS OF SPORTS

7 Beauty

8 Endurance

9 Controlled Violence

10 Technology

11 International

12 The 1930 World Cup

Epilogue: World Champions, Local Histories

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Matthew Sports in South America

ISBN:

9780300268447

OCLC:

1368027734