264 pages
8 photographs, 6 tables, index
May 2015
978-0-8032-7851-6
$55.00 Add to CartMay 2015
978-0-8032-7853-0
$55.00 Add to CartList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity
2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture
3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketball, Mass Media, Popular Culture
4. Rooting for the Underdog: Sports, Spectatorship, Subalternity
5. Basketball without Borders: Globalization and National Sports in Postcolonial Context
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index