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acknowledgments vii introduction 1 1 Rayando la Cancha—Marking the Field: Chilean Football, 1893–1919 17 2 The Massive, Modern, and Marginalized in Football of the 1920s 51 3 “The White Elephant”: The National Stadium, Populism, and the Popular Front, 1933–1942 90 4 The “Latin Lions” and the “Dogs of Constantinople”: Immigrant Clubs, Ethnicity, and Racial Hierarchies in Football, 1920–1953 127 5 “Because We Have Nothing . . .”: The Radicalization of Amateurs and the World Cup of 1962 165 6 The New Left, Popular Unity, and Football, 1963–1973 207 epilogue 242 notes 254 bibliography 291 index 307 contents figure 0.2. Neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, 2009. Cartography by Bill Nelson. ...

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