1st Edition
Brazilian Sports History
1. Gymnastics, Hygiene and Eugenics in Brazil at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Edivaldo Góis Junior
2. ‘We Have Persons with a Passion for Both the Sea and the Land’: The First Representations of Sport in the Brazilian Press (Rio de Janeiro; 1851 – 1855)
Victor Andrade de Melo
3. Sport and Politics in the Brazilian Estado Novo (1937 – 1945)
Maurício Drumond
4. Sport and Environment in Brazil: A Historical Overview
Cleber Dias
5. Football, Control and Resistance in the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the 1970s
Euclides de Freitas Couto
6. Body, Eugenics and Nationalism: Women in the First Sport and Physical Education Journal Published in Brazil (1932 – 1945)
Silvana Vilodre Goellner
7. Echoes of the Tragedy: The Sport Memoir and the Representation of the 1950 World Cup
Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollanda
8. Capoeira – a Brazilian Immaterial Heritage: Safeguarding Plans and Their Effectiveness as Public Policies
Vivian Luiz Fonseca and Luiz Renato Vieira
9. Brazil: An Emerging Power Establishing Itself in the World of International Sports Mega-Events
João Manuel Casquinha Malaia Santos
Biography
Maurício Drumond is a historian and researcher in Sport: Laboratory of the History of Sport and Leisure, and is the author of books and articles in sports and politics in Brazil, Portugal and Argentina.
Victor Andrade de Melo is a professor in the Program of Graduate Studies in Comparative History, in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator of Sport: Laboratory of the History of Sport and Leisure.
