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“paul dietschy”

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  • Origins and Birth of the Europe of football

    Edited by Paul Dietschy ...
    ‘The Europe of football’ is one of the aspects of the history of European integration that has generated the smallest amount of academic research. However, the successive invention of sporting traditions with a European calling since the Belle Epoque, followed by the creation of various European cups during the interwar constitute at the same time an original form of ‘Europe-building’ and a ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Football

    by David Goldblatt ...
    THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest ... Read more

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  • Building the Yellow Wall

    The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund: WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

    by Uli Hesse ...
    WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Towards the beginning of the twenty-first century, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business. Now they are an international phenomenon - one of the most popular clubs and fastest-growing football brands in the world. Every fortnight, an incredible number of foreigners eschew their own clubs and domestic leagues and travel to ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Century

    Archaeology of a Lost World

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, ... Read more

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  • The Games

    A Global History of the Olympics

    by David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Read more

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  • Scheisse! We're Going Up!

    The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club

    by Kit Holden ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023––––––––––––A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin.No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East Berlin have stuck it to the Stasi, built their own stadium and even given blood to save their club. But now they face a new and terrifying prospect: success ... Read more

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  • Trans-Europe Express

    Tours of a Lost Continent

    by Owen Hatherley ...
    'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen JonesA searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert ... Read more

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  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art)

    by Kenneth Frampton ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton.Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and ... Read more

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  • Football and European Identity

    Historical Narratives Through the Press

    by Liz Crolley, David Hand ...
    Shifting European identities, cultural loyalties and divisions are often expressed more directly through attitudes to 'the people's game' game than in any other arena.This book examines European football journalism from throughout the last century to present a unique cross-cultural analysis of changing European national and regional identities.Building on detailed research into original language ... Read more

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  • The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

    Antiquity to Modernity

    by Miles Glendinning ...
    Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families ... Read more

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