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From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800
Matthew Brown
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Description for From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800
Hardback. From Frontiers to Football tells the history of Latin America's engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a story of repeated cycles of lessons learned and unlearned, continued dependency, victimhood and thwarted dreams. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 black & white. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
In summer 2014 the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and airwaves packed with specious interpretations of Latin America's position in the world. This book provides the historical analysis to rebut such misinterpretations and offers the reader tools with which to understand Latin America's complex present. From Frontiers to Football tells the history of Latin America's engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a ... Read more
In summer 2014 the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and airwaves packed with specious interpretations of Latin America's position in the world. This book provides the historical analysis to rebut such misinterpretations and offers the reader tools with which to understand Latin America's complex present. From Frontiers to Football tells the history of Latin America's engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
439g
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780233536
SKU
V9781780233536
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Ref
99-15
About Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela (2012).
Reviews for From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800
"Everything you wanted to know about Latin America... Matthew Brown has managed to compact 200 years of history of a vast and diverse region into just over 200 pages. He has condensed recent academic scholarship on history and politics and combined it with what you really want to know about culture, society, and sport, particularly how and why football became ... Read more