Authors: Walter LaFeber
ISBN-13: 9780393323696, ISBN-10: 0393323692
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: New Edition
Walter LaFeber is professor of history at Cornell University and the author of The Clash and Inevitable Revolutions.
Walter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mind—one pair of feet—at a time.
A fascinating book on the dynamics of sport, culture, and capitalism in an era of American dominance, with LaFeber posing a number of important questions regarding the future.
Time Out London, 6-13 October 1999
Preface | 13 | |
Ch. I | A Century of Preparation | 27 |
Ch. II | The Globalization of Michael Jordan | 49 |
Ch. III | Bittersweet Championships | 75 |
Ch. IV | New Frontiers - and Inner Cities | 90 |
Ch. V | A Faustian Bargain | 113 |
Ch. VI | "The Greatest Endorser of the Twentieth-Century" or "An Insidious Form of Imperialism"? | 130 |
Acknowledgments | 165 | |
Notes | 167 | |
Selected Bibliography | 181 | |
Index | 185 |