Hungary As a Sport Superpower: Football from Horthy to Kádár, 1924-1960
Lorenzo Venuti What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries....
Football in Southeastern Europe
Edited by John Hughson, Fiona Skillen Football in Southeastern Europe From Ethnic Homogenization to Reconciliatio This volume draws together scholarship across a number of disciplines – history, sociology, media and cultural studies, political science, Slavonic studies – to examine the significance of the sport of football within Southeastern Europe, with an especial focus on countries of the former Yugoslavia. The volume is timely as...
