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  • Historicizing the Pan-American Games

    Edited by Bruce Kidd, Cesar Torres ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

    by Dave Zirin ...
    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Roja

    How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World

    by Jimmy Burns ...
    La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played by British sailors and engineers, through to the influx of South American stars, and similarly inspirational Italians, Dutchman and Scandinavians, Burns show how the engagement of foreigners with home-grown Spanish talent ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Angels with Dirty Faces

    How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever

    by Jonathan Wilson ...
    The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian SoccerLionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -- is mirrored in the style and swagger of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Real Madrid & Barcelona: the Making of a Rivalry

    by Elliott Turner ...
    A close look at one of sport's great rivalries: Real Madrid and Barcelona. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raceball

    How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game

    by Rob Ruck ...
    From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League BaseballAfter peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Golazo!

    The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of HowSoccer Shaped Latin America

    by Andreas Campomar ...
    The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America.Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Quixote's Soldiers

    A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981

    by David Montejano ...
    Series Book 26 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." – Journal of American HistoryIn the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard ... Read more

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  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

    2008 Edition

    by Himilce Novas ...
    The popular primer to Latino life and culture.Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, including:• New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s announced candidacy for the 2008 presidential election• ... Read more

    $7.99 USD