Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

This unique collection of essays considers the impact of modern sport on the Western Pacific Rim in terms of its political consequence, intended and unintended. The inclusion of sport in the ‘Soft Power’ geopolitics of the Asia Pacific region is powerfully illustrated in this text with its focus on football, a feature of the cultural imperialism of the British Empire, and baseball, spread through this region as a component of American cultural imperialism._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.