{"product_id":"soccer-frontiers-chris-bolsmann-9781621906124","title":"Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2022 North American Society for Sport History Book Award! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The early history of soccer in the United States has received relatively little scholarly attention. While the sport's failure to make cultural inroads has been the source of much reflection and retrospection, other pastimes such as baseball, basketball, and American football have been covered far more extensively. \u003ci\u003eSoccer Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e helps to fill this gap and correct the widespread notion that soccer was unfamiliar in the United States before thelate twentieth century.\u003cp\u003eEditors Chris Bolsmann and George N. Kioussis's collection sheds light on America's little-known soccer history by focusing on the game's presence in major American cities between 1863 and 1913. As waves of immigrants arrived and American cities began to industrialize and become sizable cultural hubs, soccer, too, began to flourish. With essays focused on the years between the Civil War and World War I--a period which saw the creation of both the English Football Association and the US Soccer Federation--this volume also offers diverse regional representation, moving from New England to the South to the West Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoccer Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to identify the distinctive yet understudied traits of American soccer, thereby contributing an important missing piece to the broader puzzle of American sport history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHRIS BOLSMANN is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge. He is coauthor, with Dilwyn Porter, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of two books with Peter Alegi: \u003ci\u003eAfrica's World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpace and South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGEORGE N. KIOUSSIS is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Sport History, Sport in History\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSoccer \u0026amp; Society.\u003c\/i\u003e He currently serves as an editor for\u003ci\u003e Sport in History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Bolsmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621906124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621906124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Chris Bolsmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670492074239,"sku":"9781621906124","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f69698d-97ff-471d-8c56-bcadc1275275.jpg?v=1741316936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soccer-frontiers-chris-bolsmann-9781621906124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}