Blood and Circuses
by Rob O'Connor
Hardback
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In the wreckage of Communism football became a force for unity amidst the bloodshed as new nations were forged violently from the ashes of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
This remarkable books tells the stories of those who were involved and shows how sport, specifically football, became a potent expression of resistance, pacifism and sovereignty in the often bloody civil wars that blighted Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
Explores how competitive football has proven to be a tool in exercising nationhood in former Communist countries.O'Connor goes beyond the field of sport to offer analysis packed with drama and human interest.
Focuses on the bloody inter-ethnic wasr that unfolded in eight of Europe's disputed territories after the end of communism: Kosovo in the Balkans; Nagorno-Karabakh; Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Lower Transcaucasia; Pridnestrovia at the foothills of the Carpathians; Crimea on the shores of the Black Sea and Donetsk in the Donbas region.
This remarkable books tells the stories of those who were involved and shows how sport, specifically football, became a potent expression of resistance, pacifism and sovereignty in the often bloody civil wars that blighted Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
Explores how competitive football has proven to be a tool in exercising nationhood in former Communist countries.O'Connor goes beyond the field of sport to offer analysis packed with drama and human interest.
Focuses on the bloody inter-ethnic wasr that unfolded in eight of Europe's disputed territories after the end of communism: Kosovo in the Balkans; Nagorno-Karabakh; Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Lower Transcaucasia; Pridnestrovia at the foothills of the Carpathians; Crimea on the shores of the Black Sea and Donetsk in the Donbas region.
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Hardback
Pages
320
Price
28.50 €
Description
In the wreckage of Communism football became a force for unity amidst the bloodshed as new nations were forged violently from the ashes of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
This remarkable books tells the stories of those who were involved and shows how sport, specifically football, became a potent expression of resistance, pacifism and sovereignty in the often bloody civil wars that blighted Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
Explores how competitive football has proven to be a tool in exercising nationhood in former Communist countries.O'Connor goes beyond the field of sport to offer analysis packed with drama and human interest.
Focuses on the bloody inter-ethnic wasr that unfolded in eight of Europe's disputed territories after the end of communism: Kosovo in the Balkans; Nagorno-Karabakh; Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Lower Transcaucasia; Pridnestrovia at the foothills of the Carpathians; Crimea on the shores of the Black Sea and Donetsk in the Donbas region.
This remarkable books tells the stories of those who were involved and shows how sport, specifically football, became a potent expression of resistance, pacifism and sovereignty in the often bloody civil wars that blighted Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
Explores how competitive football has proven to be a tool in exercising nationhood in former Communist countries.O'Connor goes beyond the field of sport to offer analysis packed with drama and human interest.
Focuses on the bloody inter-ethnic wasr that unfolded in eight of Europe's disputed territories after the end of communism: Kosovo in the Balkans; Nagorno-Karabakh; Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Lower Transcaucasia; Pridnestrovia at the foothills of the Carpathians; Crimea on the shores of the Black Sea and Donetsk in the Donbas region.
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Hardback
Pages
320
Price
28.50 €