| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Offside/ Andrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman. |
| Reminder of title: |
soccer and American exceptionalism / |
| Author: |
Markovits, Andrei S. |
| other author: |
Hellerman, Steven L., |
| Published: |
Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press, : c2001., |
| Description: |
xiv, 367 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
The argument: sports as culture in industrial societies- American conformities and exceptions -- The formation of the American sport space: "crowding out" and other factors in the relegation and marginalization of soccer -- Soccer's trials and tribulations: beginnings, chaos, "almosts", obscurity, and colleges -- The formation and rearrangement of the American sport space in the second half of the twentieth century -- From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer -- The World Cup in the United States -- The coverage of World Cup '98 by the American media and the tournaments's reception by the American public. |
| Subject: |
Soccer - Social aspects - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=81033An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
140081443X (electronic bk.) |