Regeneration Through Sport: Football, Sport, and Cultural Modernization in Spain, 1890-1920

This book examines how and why sport in general, and football in particular, entered the country and developed successfully between 1890 and the 1920s, while placing that growth within the context of Spain’s larger historical experience.

Andrew McFarland is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Kokomo. He has published numerous articles on the introduction of sport, football, and physical education to Spain and their development from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.