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Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.
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by Andrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman
Sales Rank: 555537
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List Price: $26.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 362 pages
Published by: Princeton University Press May 1, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 069107447X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691074474
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Chronicle of Higher Education
"Why is the 'world's game' not America's game, and will that ever change? That was the puzzle for Andrei Markovits."
Product Review
Warmly recommended to all those who want to understand and appreciate . . . popular culture in the United States.
(Roman Horak Der Standard )
The text is well referenced, historically grounded, and offers great insight into US soccer and its past, present, and future potential as a major sport. Highly recommended for both the general population and those interested in sports studies and sociology of sport.
(Choice )
This is the first adequate sociocultural history of the sport in the United States. . . . Sports sociologists will look to this book for soccer material and also for the author's fresh conceptualization of sports culture. Sociologists with more general interests in culture and institutional analysis might also find it useful and informative as a case study.
(John Wilson American Journal of Sociology )
Reader Reviews
Be prepared that this tome has a lot of unnecessary intellectualizing. I did not get why the author used some Austrian references when, let's face facts, Austria have not been a world power in soccer since the '20s and '30s. The footnotes alone are a book in itself. Despite this academic approach this book is beyond brilliant in its analysis of North American sports. Yes, it's not just about soccer but places soccer in the context of how it has struggled to establish itself at the pro level in North America and explains why. For those of us who love all four major sports...and soccer, it is an eye-opener to learn about how soccer was a fairly established sport in America but blew its advantage just as baseball and college football took over. A definite great read but could have used a better editor to slash and burn much of the lengthy overworking of some points.
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