Latin American Sport - (Bibliographies and Indexes on Sports History) Annotated by Joseph Arbena (Hardcover)

About the Book

An impressive amount of literature, particularly literature on soccer and baseball, has appeared since Joseph Arbena's 1989 bibliography, An Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport. This new bibliography includes titles published during the past decade as well as a few items omitted from the earlier bibliography. Arranged topically, it includes sections on indigenous traditions, Iberian background, the National Period in Middle America and in South America, and Hispanic sports and sportsmen in the United States.

Book Synopsis

An impressive amount of literature, particularly literature on soccer and baseball, has appeared since Joseph Arbena's 1989 bibliography, An Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport. This new bibliography includes titles published during the past decade as well as a few items omitted from the earlier bibliography. Arranged topically, it includes sections on indigenous traditions, Iberian background, the National Period in Middle America and in South America, and Hispanic sports and sportsmen in the United States.

Review Quotes

?[A] wonderful resource for beginning and experienced researchers in Latin American sport, physical education, and recreational sports.?-Choice

?For researchers, this and the originally published bibliography are the only comprehensive English-language works on the subject. This bibliography is recommended.?-ARBA

"ÝA¨ wonderful resource for beginning and experienced researchers in Latin American sport, physical education, and recreational sports."-Choice

"[A] wonderful resource for beginning and experienced researchers in Latin American sport, physical education, and recreational sports."-Choice

"For researchers, this and the originally published bibliography are the only comprehensive English-language works on the subject. This bibliography is recommended."-ARBA

About the Author

JOSEPH L. ARBENA is Professor of History at Clemson University. His earlier books include Sport and Society in Latin America (Greenwood, 1988) and An Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport: Pre-Conquest to the Present (Greenwood, 1989).