From Football to Soccer
The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States
$67.71
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2021
Summary
Rediscovering soccer’s long history in the U.S.
Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer’s emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252085871 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0252085876 |
| Author: | Brian D. Bunk |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Sport and Society |
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“From Football to Soccer enhances the history of soccer in America by focusing on the United States and the early years of the game.” –Journal of American History “An excellent addition… From Football to Soccer undoubtedly adds much to the historiography of soccer in the United States.” –Journal of Popular Culture “Bunk presents an innovative look at early American soccer history that should help put to rest any notion of the United States as a place exceptional among soccer-playing nations. Individual chapters within From Football to Soccer can stand alone as readings for undergraduate courses, and the book is a valuable resource for all who study the history of football codes.” –Journal of Sport History
About The Author
Brian D. Bunk
Brian D. Bunk is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War and coeditor of Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne.
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