The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Author:   Paulo Fontes ,  Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollando
Publisher:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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9781849044172


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 June 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Paulo Fontes ,  Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollando
Publisher:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781849044172


ISBN 10:   1849044171
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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"""Fontes and Buarquede Hollanda have produced a highly readable yet profound volume that showcases how Brazilian identity and football have been closely and intimately intertwined over the last one hundred years.""-Journal of Sport History"


Fontes and Buarquede Hollanda have produced a highly readable yet profound volume that showcases how Brazilian identity and football have been closely and intimately intertwined over the last one hundred years. -Journal of Sport History


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Paulo Fontes is an associate professor at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (CPDOC/FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He was a Visiting Professor at Duke (2004) and Princeton (2006/7) Universities. His book on immigrant workers in Sao Paolo won the first Thomas E. Skidmore Prize. Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda holds a PhD in the Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He is currently assistant reader at the School of Social Sciences and researcher at Center for Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History at FGV Foundation (CPDOC/FGV).

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