Alan McDougall is Professor of History at University of Guelph (Canada). Dr. McDougall is the author of The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Introduction: Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation
Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe, And Alan McDougall

Part I: A Border-Crossing Game: German Football and International Cultural Exchange

Chapter 1. The Introduction and Integration of Football into a Divided Society: Conservative and Socialist Football in Germany from 1871 to 1933
Thomas Adam

Chapter 2. Fußball Internationale: Toward a Global History of GDR Football
Alan McDougall

Chapter 3. Local Fans-Global Players: Contradictions in Post-Industrial Football
Stephan Schindler

Part II: Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football

Chapter 4. Willy Meisl's "German Football Nation:" Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing
Kay Schiller

Chapter 5. Commodified, Corrupted and Capitalist: Combatting the Modern Athletic Machine in Melchior Vischer's Football Players and Indians
Rebeccah Dawson

Chapter 6. Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil's National Team Resignation
Kate Zambon

Part III: Forming Identities through Football: Class and Gender in German Culture

Chapter 7. The Making of a Football Myth: Memory, Masculinity, and the Media
Friederike Emonds

Chapter 8. A Gendered Network of Double Binds in Joachim Hasler's Football Musical "Don't Cheat, Darling!"
Kaleigh Bangor

Chapter 9. From GDR-Emigrant to Third-Class Citizen: Football Stadiums, Social Divides, and East German Identities in Andreas Gläser's BFC is to Blame for the Wall
Oliver Knabe

Part IV: The Politics Beyond the Pitch: German Fandom and Spectatorship

Chapter 10. Educating the Spectator: Athlete-Fan Interplay in the Early German Football Film The Eleven Devils by Zoltan Korda
Bastian Heinsohn

Chapter 11. Antisemitic Metaphors in German Football Fan Culture Directed at RB Leipzig
Pavel Brunssen

Chapter 12. One Foot on the Ball and the Other Nearly in Jail? Analyzing the Role of Social Work in the Interaction of Supporters, Police, and the Media in Hamburg Football
Fabian Fritz

Chapter 13. Countering Contingency: Aesthetics and Fan Codetermination in German Football
Alex Holznienkemper

Conclusion: "Fußball ist alles!" Football's Importance in German Society
Timm Beichelt