Football, History and Politics in Chile. A Review of Brenda Elsey's <em>Citizens & Sportsmen: Fútbol & Politics in 20th-Century Chile</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2012)

Authors

  • Matthew Brown University of Bristol

Keywords:

Chile, soccer, politics

Abstract

A review of Brenda Elsey's Citizens & Sportsmen: Fútbol & Politics in 20th-Century Chile (Austin:  U of Texas P, 2012).

Author Biography

Matthew Brown, University of Bristol

Matthew Brown is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. His several books include The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela (2012) and Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s (with Gabriel Paquette, 2013). He is currently director of the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies at the University of Bristol, and is finishing a short book provisionally entitled "From Frontiers to Football: Latin America and the World". His blog is http://bolivariantimes.blogspot.co.uk/.

Published

2013-01-31

How to Cite

Brown, M. (2013). Football, History and Politics in Chile. A Review of Brenda Elsey’s <em>Citizens & Sportsmen: Fútbol & Politics in 20th-Century Chile</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2012). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 10(2), 347–356. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/668

Issue

Section

Reviews: Soccer