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Global Games
Engelsk Hardback
Global Games
Engelsk Hardback

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

Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that a hidden competition of social and international relations, rather than the particular qualities of a given sport, explains who plays what sport and why. Looking at Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan, Van Bottenburg discusses how individual sports developed, what institutions and groups spread them to other nations, and why certain sports and not others found an international audience. As he shows, the nature of the relationship between the country of origin and the adopting country help determine how successfully a sport takes hold and to what degree new practitioners modify it. Other key factors include which groups dominated and promoted the various sports in their countries of origin, which groups appropriated them elsewhere, and the latter''s positions within their society''s class structure.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
296
ISBN-13:
9780252026546
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252026543
Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2001
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
157mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2001
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