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Author Alegi, Peter, author.

Title African soccerscapes : how a continent changed the world's game / Peter Alegi.

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press : Ohio University Center for International Studies, [2010]
2010

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Africa in world history
Africa in world history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "The white man's burden" : football and empire, 1860s/1919 -- The Africanization of football, 1920s/1940s -- Making nations in late colonial Africa, 1940s/1964 -- Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and football after independence -- Football migration to Europe since the 1930s -- The privatization of football, 1980s to recent times -- South Africa 2010 : the World Cup comes to Africa.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Soccer -- Africa -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Alegi, Peter. African soccerscapes : how a continent changed the world's game. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010] xvi, 179 pages ; 23 cm Africa in world history 9780896802780 (OCoLC)ocn468233504 (DLC)10904201
ISBN 9780896802780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0896802787
9780896804722 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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