How Long to Read From Frontiers to Football

How Long Does it Take to Read From Frontiers to Football?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 10 minutes to read From Frontiers to Football by Matthew Brown

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This summer the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games inRio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and airwaves packed with specious interpretations of Latin America’s position in the world. This book provides the historical analysis to rebut such misinterpretations and offers the reader tools with which tounder stand Latin America’s complex present.'From frontiers to football' tells the history of Latin America’s engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a storyof repeated cycles of lessons learned and unlearned, continued dependency, victimhood and thwarted dreams. It is also anarrative of overthrown imperial designs,colonial armies defeated and new hope sexpressed – inspiration for other colonized peoples across the globe. This book redresses the absence of cultural history, giving as much attention to Shakira and Pelé as tocoffee producers, copper miners, government policies and covert imperialism. It avoids the polemical invectives of political interpretations,presenting a clear, readable and absorbing introduction to the history of Latin America’s interactions with the world over the last two centuries.Latin America is at the forefront of innovation and a global centre in many social, cultural and economic activities.No longer either a frontier or a periphery, 'From frontiers to football'presents a compelling and accessible portrait of a continent today.

How long is From Frontiers to Football?

From Frontiers to Football by Matthew Brown is 250 pages long, and a total of 62,500 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Frontiers to Football Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read From Frontiers to Football aloud.

What Reading Level is From Frontiers to Football?

From Frontiers to Football is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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