The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football
Autor David Goldblatten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2015
In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us?
In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan,The Game of Our Liveswill appeal to readers ofFever Pitchby Nick Hornby andInverting the Pyramidby Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such asAusterity Britainby David Kynaston.
'Brilliantly incisive. Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been. Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241955260
ISBN-10: 0241955262
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241955262
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
David
Goldblatt
is
the
author
ofThe
Ball
Is
Round:
A
Global
History
of
Football(Penguin,
2007),
the
definitive
historical
account
of
the
world's
game,
and
ofFutebol
Nation(Penguin,
2014),
a
highly
acclaimed
footballing
history
of
Brazil.
For
a
number
of
years
he
wrote
a
sports
column
inProspectmagazine
and
has
made
a
number
of
documentaries
for
BBC
Radio
4
and
for
the
World
Service,
including
ones
on
football
in
Jerusalem
and
the
politics
of
the
game
in
Kenya.
He
has
also
taught
the
sociology
of
sport
at
the
University
of
Bristol,
at
De
Montfort
University,
Leicester,
and
at
Pitzer
College,
Los
Angeles.
He
lives
in
Bristol.
Recenzii
Brilliantly
incisive.
Goldblatt
is
not
merely
the
best
football
historian
writing
today,
he
is
possibly
the
best
there
has
ever
been.Goldblatt's
book
could
hardly
be
more
impressive
Offers an enlightening, enriching experience.It is based on a formidable range of sources, personal observation and a pleasingly sardonic turn of phrase. Not all football writers know their stuff, let alone the socio-economic context, but Goldblatt does.Altogether this is an exceptional book
Not justthe best soccer book in many yearsbut an exemplary account of the changing character of British society in the post-Thatcher era
David Goldblatt examines [English football] peerlessly ...A superb history of a sport and of a nation
Goldblatt is a trusted guide... Rich with statistics, this isan admirably balanced account of the beautiful game
Prodigious research and a fluent writing style... this is a fine book which should havean appeal much beyond the game
An encyclopaedic portrait of English football stripped of all the non-stop hype.The beautiful game is, after all, a dirty business
Anintensely readablesocioeconomic study of English football in the age of globalisation
A book that informs and inspires, a truly great piece of writing
The best pub talker of a book for years
Goldblatt has a gift for exploring the way the game holds a mirror up to our lives... His deconstruction of the modern gamecould hardly be bettered
[A]bold analysisof Britain's economic and social change refracted through football
A salient overview of the past quarter-century
Offers an enlightening, enriching experience.It is based on a formidable range of sources, personal observation and a pleasingly sardonic turn of phrase. Not all football writers know their stuff, let alone the socio-economic context, but Goldblatt does.Altogether this is an exceptional book
Not justthe best soccer book in many yearsbut an exemplary account of the changing character of British society in the post-Thatcher era
David Goldblatt examines [English football] peerlessly ...A superb history of a sport and of a nation
Goldblatt is a trusted guide... Rich with statistics, this isan admirably balanced account of the beautiful game
Prodigious research and a fluent writing style... this is a fine book which should havean appeal much beyond the game
An encyclopaedic portrait of English football stripped of all the non-stop hype.The beautiful game is, after all, a dirty business
Anintensely readablesocioeconomic study of English football in the age of globalisation
A book that informs and inspires, a truly great piece of writing
The best pub talker of a book for years
Goldblatt has a gift for exploring the way the game holds a mirror up to our lives... His deconstruction of the modern gamecould hardly be bettered
[A]bold analysisof Britain's economic and social change refracted through football
A salient overview of the past quarter-century