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Sports Culture and the Varieties of Latin American Identity
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This essay reviews the following works:Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America. Edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 307. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137487186.Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. Pp. x + 196. $135.00 cloth. ISBN: 9789004284487.Sports Culture in Latin American History. Edited by David M. K. Sheinin. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 239. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822963370.The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico. By Antonio Sotomayor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. xix + 360. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780803278813.
Title: Sports Culture and the Varieties of Latin American Identity
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This essay reviews the following works:Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America.
Edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Pp.
xiii + 307.
$95.
00 cloth.
ISBN: 9781137487186.
Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas.
Edited by Raanan Rein and David M.
K.
Sheinin.
Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014.
Pp.
x + 196.
$135.
00 cloth.
ISBN: 9789004284487.
Sports Culture in Latin American History.
Edited by David M.
K.
Sheinin.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Pp.
ix + 239.
$25.
95 paper.
ISBN: 9780822963370.
The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico.
By Antonio Sotomayor.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Pp.
xix + 360.
$60.
00 cloth.
ISBN: 9780803278813.
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