Presentation 9
Chapter 1 “Gentlemen’s games”: physical activities before the arrival of the sport ……… 13
Mary Del Priore
Chapter 2 From bullfights to horse races and regattas: first moments of the configuration of the sports field in Brazil 35
Victor Andrade de Melo
Chapter 3 Bodies, bicycles and automobiles: other sports in the transition of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 71
Victor Andrade de Melo
Chapter 4 The future national passion: football comes 107
Fabio Franzini
Chapter 5 The art and science of moving: first moments of gymnastics in Brazil 133
Carmen Lucia Soares
Chapter 6 Tensions in the consolidation of national football 179
Ricardo Pinto dos Santos
Chapter 7 Sport as a State Policy: Vargas 213
Maurício Drumond
Chapter 8 On the road to sports: the saga of capoeira in the twentieth century 245
Carlos Eugênio Líbano Soares
Frederico José de Abreu
Chapter 9 Images of women in sport 269
Silvana Vilodre Goellner
Chapter 10 Brazil in the international scenario: Olympic Games and World Cups 293
Plínio Labriola Negreiros
Chapter 11 Sport and school: shrewdness in the “energizing of character” of Brazilians 331
Meily Assbú Linhales
Chapter 12 New conformations of the sports field: sports in nature 359
Cleber Augusto Gonçalves Dias
Chapter 13 The Brazilian sport in times of exception: under the aegis of the Dictatorship (1964-1985) 387
Marcus Aurelio Taborda de Oliveira
Chapter 14 The 80s, youth and extreme sports 417
Rafael Fortes
Chapter 15 Football and national identity: reflections on Brazil 453
Simoni Lahud Guedes
Chapter 16 Sport, globalization and business: Brazil today 481
Antonio Jorge Gonçalves Soares
Alexandre Fernandez Vaz
Chapter 17 Globalization and Spectacle: Brazil’s mega-sport events 505
Gilmar Mascarenhas
Bibliographic references 535
About the authors 563