Why is soccer the sport of choice in South America, while baseball has soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India's national sport, while China is a stronghold of table tennis? In Global Games, Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that it is the "hidden competition" of social and international relations, rather than the particular qualities of a given sport, that explains who plays what sport and why. People's different...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252026543
ISBN13:9780252026546
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.46 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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