Fear and Loathing in World Football

by Gary Armstrong

Book Overview

The quickest entry-point into most local cultures anywhere on earth is to be found in talking football. Historically, football is one of the great cultural institutions, and, like education and the mass media, has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. However, the nature of intra-nation hostility, which may be based in football or which may use the game as an arena for antagonisms, has yet to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859734634
• ISBN13: 9781859734636
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"