The invention of the beautiful game : football and the making of modern Brazil /

"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian 'futebol, ' o jogo bonito...

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Main Author: Bocketti, Gregg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
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