Andrei Markovits
Currently an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, Markovits offers courses on sports identity and culture in the United States and Europe on a regular basis at the University of Michigan as well as universities elsewhere in the world.
Books by Andrei Markovits
The German Left
by Andrei Markovits
This comprehensive, richly detailed history and political analysis of the German Left since 1945 focuses on the emergence of the Greens as the most influential anti-establishment party in Europe and possibly in the industrial, capitalist world, and shows how this process has fundamentally changed politics in the Federal Republic, transformed the style and output of one of the most important and traditional Lefts in Europe, and provided the most prominent and potent expression of "postmodern" politics in the advanced capitalist states. Uniquely broad in scope, the book gives special consideration to the East German Left and to the revolutionary changes of 1989-90 while revealing political and social implications, present and future, far beyond the immediate German context. An imaginative, insightful study of a topic of great interest to students, this book is an important resource for courses in comparative politics, political economy, and political sociology.
Uncouth Nation
by Andrei Markovits
"Markovits concludes soberly that European hostility is unlikely to be substantially abated in a post-Bush America." -- Fred Siegel, Blueprint Magazine
Offside
by Andrei Markovits
Sports sociologists will look to this book for soccer material and. . . for the author's fresh conceptualization of sports culture.
(John Wilson American Journal of Sociology )
Gaming the World
by Andrei Markovits
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice.
Interviews with Andrei Markovits
The best books on Global Sport, recommended by Andrei Markovits
The Professor of Comparative Politics & German Studies at the University of Michigan and avid baseball, basketball, American football and ice-hockey fan gives us his views on Global Sport.
