Gaming the world [electronic resource] : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture / Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
Markovits, Andrei S.; Rensmann, Lars.
2010
GV706.35 .M3525 2010eb
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Title Gaming the world [electronic resource] : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture / Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
Author Markovits, Andrei S.
ISBN 9781400834662 electronic book
9780691137513
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 345 p.)
Call Number GV706.35 .M3525 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.483
Summary Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice.
Note Includes index.
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Added Author Rensmann, Lars.
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