Football and National Identities in Spain: The Strange Death of Don Quixote

This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.

Author: A. Quiroga
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2013
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781349347070

About the Author
Alejandro Quiroga is Reader in Spanish History at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-1930 and The Reinvention of Spain: Nation and Identity since Democracy (with Sebastian Balfour).