Markovits / Hellerman Offside

Soccer and American Exceptionalism
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2418-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Markovits, Andrei S.

Hellerman, Steven L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction 3

One The Argument: Sports As Culture in In ustrial Societies--American Conformities and Exceptions 7

Two The Formation of the American Sport Space: "Crow ing Out" and

Other Factors in the Relegation and Marginalization of Soccer 52

Three Soccer's Trials and Tribulations: Beginnings, Chaos, "Almosts," Obscurity, an Colleges 99

Four The Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in the Secon Half of the wentieth Century 128

Five From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer 162

Six The World Cup in the Unite States 201

Seven The Coverage of World Cup '98 by the American Media and the Tournament's Reception by the American Public 235

Conclusion 264

Appendixes 273

A. A Statistical Abstract on Recreational, Scholastic, and Collegiate Soccer in the United States 275

B. A Sample of Opinion from American Sports Columnists and Journalists regarding the 1994 World Cup 282

Notes 299

Bibliography 341

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

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.