International Football as Cultural Diplomacy : Britain Versus the Dictators in the 1930s (Paperback)

1.?Introduction: The British Government, Football, and the Outbreak of the Second World War,??2.?British International Football Between Two World Wars: Continental Europe Twists the Lion’s Tail,??3.?Using Soccer Diplomacy as an Invaluable Instrument of British Soft Power: Britain as a ‘Troubled Giant’ Fighting a ‘Fierce War of Ideas’,??4.?Viewing Football in Weimar Germany Through a First World War Lens: ‘To Play, or Not to Play, Germany?’, That Was the Question for British Football,??5.?‘The Greatest Ever Triumph’ Keeping Politics Out of International Football?: The 1935 England-Germany Match,??6.?Facing Hitler’s Germany On and Off the Football Field, 1938-1939: England’s Nazi Salute as Virtue Signalling in Support of Footballing Appeasement?,??7.?Projecting British Power On and Off the Football Field: Facing the Challenge Posed by Mussolini’s Italy, 1933,??8.?‘The Most Important’ and ‘The Most Controversial’ Match Played in Britain Since the First World War: “The Battle of Highbury”, 1934,??9.?Britain’s ‘Football Ambassadors’ Play Italy, 1939,??10.?An Exceptional Case of British Governmental Intervention in Football?: Banning Stalin’s ‘Red Jerseys’, 1930,??11.?The British Government and the Football Association, 1938-1939: Collaborating to Ensure ‘a Good Impression is Made Abroad’ by British Football,??12.?Conclusion: Using ‘the Power of Football’ for Britain