How soccer explains the world
Subtitle: an unlikely theory of globalization
By: Franklin Foer.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Soccer -- Social aspects; Sports and globalization
Description: "Soccer is a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world ... Franklin Foer takes us on a tour through the world of soccer, shattering the myths of our new global age along the way"--jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: How soccer explains the gangster's paradise; title: How soccer explains the pornography of sects; title: How soccer explains the Jewish question; title: How soccer explains the sentimental hooligan; title: How soccer explains the survival of the top hats; title: How soccer explains the black Carpathians; title: How soccer explains the new oligarchs; title: How soccer explains the discreet charm of bourgeois nationalism; title: How soccer explains Islam's hope; title: How soccer explains the American culture wars.