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European Football and Collective Memory

W Pyta editor N Havemann editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '15

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Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.

“A volume … ties together several different strands from the founding mythology of footballing and political Europe. Much of what is discussed in this volume has continued relevance for academics using football to try to make sense of the contemporary political context of ‘Europe’.” (Matthew L. McDowell, idrottsforum.org, May 17, 2019)

ISBN: 9781349496952

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 286g

208 pages

1st ed. 2015