Alan McDougall, “The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2014) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

In The People’s Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up: as a tool of the state, as forming regional identities in East Germany and in a reunified Germany, and as a popular pastime. Although characterized by mediocrity compared...
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