Description: Football and National Identities in Spain : The Strange Death of Don Quixote, Hardcover by Quiroga, Alejandro, ISBN 0230355404, ISBN-13 9780230355408, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Football is the most popular sport on earth, and a near-universal means of expressing collective identification. This book investigates the uses made of football to create, shape and foster national identities in Spain since the beginning of the twentieth century. Its focus is on the manner in which football reporting has been utilized to cultivate Spanish, Catalan and Basque national myths and stereotypes in different historical circumstances. Football and National Identities in Spain shows the changing and artificial nature of myths and exposes the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer. This book analyses Spanish, British, French, German and Italian media to tell the fascinating story of how the Spanish national team went from perennial underachiever to one of the most lauded in the history of the game and the profound implications this transformation had for the national and international image of Spain"--
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Book Title: Football and National Identities in Spain : The Strange Death of
Number of Pages: X, 246 Pages
Publication Name: Football and National Identities in Spain : the Strange Death of Don Quixote
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Sociology / General, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General, Football, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 151.2 Oz
Author: Alejandro Quiroga
Subject Area: Political Science, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
Item Length: 11.1 in
Series: Global Culture and Sport Ser.
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
