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A Global History of Football

  • Introduction: Life and Death, Love and Money
  • Part One – Ancients and Moderns: Football and the Invention of Modern Sport, from the Beginning to 1914
    1. Chasing Shadows: The Prehistory of Football
    2. The Simplest Game: Britain and the Invention of Modern Football
    3. An Altogether More Splendid Life: Industrial Football and Working-class Britain, 1888-1914
  • Part Two – The People’s Game: Football, Empire and Industry, 1870-1934
    1. Perfidious Albion: The Resistible Rise of Global Football
    2. The Great Game and the Informal Empire: The International Spread of Football, 1870-1914
    3. Pay Up, Pay Up and Play the Game: The Commercialization of Global Football, 1914-1934
    4. The Rules of the Game: International Football and International Politics, 1900-1934
  • Part Three – The Beautiful Game: Football’s Short Twentieth Century, 1934-1974
    1. The Road to El Dorado: Latin American Football, 1935-1954
    2. Games of Life, Games of Death: European Football in War and Peace, 1934-1954
    3. Demons and Angels: Latin American Football, 1955-1974
    4. The Glamour and the Glory: High Industrial Football in Europe, 1955-1974
    5. We Can Show Them Who is Really Superior: Football in Africa, 1900-1974
  • Part Four – Things Fall Apart: Football after the Long Boom, 1974-1990
    1. The World Turned Upside Down: Joāo Havelange, FIFA and the Transformation of Global Football
    2. If This Is Football, Let It Die: The European Crisis, 1974-1990
    3. Military Manoeuvres: Football under the Latin American Generals, 1974-1990
    4. Football and the Belly: Africa, 1974-1990
  • Part Five – The Only Game: Football and the End of History, 1990-2006
    1. Football through the Looking-Glass: Europe, 1990-2006
    2. The Crisis Will Be Televised: Football in the Americas, 1990-2006
    3. Accelerated Development: Football and Asia’s New Industrial Revolution
    4. Small Mercies: Football in Africa after the Cold War, 1990-2006
  • Conclusion: The Game at the End of the World
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