Power games : a political history of the Olympics
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts...
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| Ort / Verlag / Datum: | London, New York : Verso, 2016 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Klassifikation: | 796.48
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 338 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten; Illustrationen |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine. |
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| ISBN: | 9781784780722 |
| AC Nummer: | AC17250662 |
| Hierarchiestufe: | Monografie |
| Erscheinungsform: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Text |
| Medientyp: | Analog |
| Datenträger: | Analog |
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