Global Games

by Beverley Jackson and Maarten Van Bottenburg

Why is soccer the sport of choice in South America, while baseball has soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India's national sport, while China is a stronghold of table tennis?

In Global Games, Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that it is the "hidden competition" of social and international relations, rather than the particular qualities of a given sport, that explains who plays what sport and why. People's different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026543
• ISBN13: 9780252026546
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"