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Soccer Frontiers - The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913 (Hardcover)
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Soccer Frontiers - The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913 (Hardcover)
Series: Sports & Popular Culture
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The early history of soccer in the United States has received
relatively little scholarly attention. While the sport's failure to
make cultural inroads has been the source of much reflection and
retrospection, other pastimes such as baseball, basketball, and
American football have been covered far more extensively. Soccer
Frontiers helps to fill this gap and correct the widespread notion
that soccer was unfamiliar in the United States before the late
twentieth century. Editors Chris Bolsmann and George N. Kioussis's
collection sheds light on America's little-known soccer history by
focusing on the game's presence in major American cities between
1863 and 1913. As waves of immigrants arrived and American cities
began to industrialize and become sizable cultural hubs, soccer,
too, began to flourish. With essays focused on the years between
the Civil War and World War I-a period which saw the creation of
both the English Football Association and the US Soccer
Federation-this volume also offers diverse regional representation,
moving from New England to the South to the West Coast. Soccer
Frontiers seeks to identify the distinctive yet understudied traits
of American soccer, thereby contributing an important missing piece
to the broader puzzle of American sport history.
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