Simon Martin

Sport Italia (eBook, ePUB)

The Italian Love Affair with Sport

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely new portrayal of one of Europe's most alluring, yet contradictory countries, tracing the highs and lows of Italy's sporting history from its Liberal pioneers through Mussolini and the 1960 Rome Olympics to the Berlusconi era. By interweaving essential themes of Italian history, its politics, society and economy with a history of the passion for sport in the country, Simon Martin tells the story of modern Italy in a fresh and colourful way, illustrating how and why sport is so strongly embedded in both politics and society, and how it is inseparable from the concept of Italian national identity.
Showing sport's capacity to both unite and deeply divide, this book reveals a novel and previously unexplored element of the history of a society and its state, which will be an essential read for sports fans, historians and students alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857730602
• Artikelnr.: 39141625

Autorenporträt

Simon Martin, University College London

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: From Unification to Disintegration:
Leisure and Liberal Italy Chapter 3: 'Soldiers of Sport' and 'Athletes of
Fascism': Sport and Mussolini's Italy Chapter 4: Dictatorship and
Democracy: From the Duce to De Gasperi Chapter 5: Reconstruction Italy: A
Hot Economy in a Cold War Chapter 6: Terrorists, Trade Unionists and
Televisions: Italy's Cultural Revolution Chapter 7: Berlusconi's Italy: The
Politics of Football Chapter 8: A Dirty Game and Clean Feet - Moggiopoli,
Piedi Puliti and the Crisis of Calcio Chapter 9: Conclusion: Everything
Must Change if Things are to Remain the Same?