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This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Reviews
"Quiroga has achieved a portrait of post-Franco Spain that is, undoubtedly, both a tour de force and a must for eventual investigations. Excellent for those interested in Spain." - El Mundo
"Alejandro Quiroga provides an objective and entirely scientific analysis of football's social impact. Football and National Identities in Spain has also the strength of dealing dispassionately with the struggles for sports hegemonies in a country rich in national identities." - El País
"An important book due to its deep reflexion, thorough analysis and meticulous use of sources. Rigorous and praiseworthy." - ABC
"Alejandro Quiroga has written the almost definitive book on its subject. This is a brilliant volume with compelling arguments." - Leer
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alejandro Quiroga is Reader in Spanish History at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-1930 and The Reinvention of Spain: Nation and Identity since Democracy (with Sebastian Balfour).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Football and National Identities in Spain
Book Subtitle: The Strange Death of Don Quixote
Authors: Alejandro Quiroga
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315502
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35540-8Published: 25 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34707-0Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31550-2Published: 25 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 246
Topics: European History, Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Policy