Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

New Books in Economic and Business History · Jul 12, 2021 · 1h

Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the author of Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football (University of Toronto Press, 2020). In our conversation we discussed football’s role in global migrations from the 19th to the 21st century, global football’s changing economic conditions from grassroots pastime to neo-liberal ‘big business,’ and the many roles that spectators and stadiums have played in shaping the game. In Contested Fields, McDougall offers an innovative history of football since 1863. Rather than proceed…