Football and Colonialism
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Nuno Domingos, Football and Colonialism
Football and Colonialism
Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos
Foreword by Harry G. West
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A substantially different version was published in Portuguese as Futebol e colonialismo: Corpo e cultura popular em Moçambique by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, 2012.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Domingos, Nuno, 1976– author.
Title: Football and colonialism : body and popular culture in urban Mozambique / Nuno Domingos ; foreword by Harry G. West.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017] | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017018181| ISBN 9780821422618 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422625 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445976 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Soccer—Mozambique—History. | Soccer—Social aspects—Mozambique. | Soccer—Political aspects—Mozambique. | Mozambique—Social life and customs.
Classification: LCC GV944.M85 D6613 2017 | DDC 796.33409679—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018181
Contents
Foreword by Harry G. West
