Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean

<I>Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean</I> is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political economic and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of sports-basketball baseball volleyball cricket soccer and equestrian events-in countries and regions throughout Latin America. Broad in scope this volume explores the definition of modern sport; whether sport is enslaving liberating or neutral; if sport reflects or challenges dominant culture; the attributes and drawbacks of professional versus amateur sport; and the difference between sport in capitalist and socialist nations.