Offside : soccer and American exceptionalism /

Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does m...

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Ngā kaituhi matua: Markovits, Andrei S. (Author), Hellerman, Steven L., 1958- (Author)
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
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I whakaputaina: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2001.
Rangatū:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s3xd
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.