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Global Olympics : historical and sociological studies of the modern games
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- Creator
- edited by Kevin Young, Kevin B. Wamsley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier JAI, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780762311811, 0762311819
- OCLC
- ocm62133166
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Coubertin's Olympic games : the greatest show on earth / Kevin B. Wamsley and Kevin Young -- From Olympia 776 BC to Athens 2004 : the origin and authenticity of the modern Olympic games / David Young -- The Olympic games experience : origins and early challenges / Douglas A. Brown -- The Nazi Olympics of 1936 / Arnd Krüger -- The Cold War games / Cesar R. Torres and Mark Dyreson -- Amateurism, high-performance sport, and the Olympics / Hart Cantelon -- Olympic men and women : the politics of gender in the modern games / Kevin B. Wamsley and Gertrud Pfister -- International politics and Olympic governance / Bruce Houlihan -- 'Another world is possible' : recapturing alternative Olympic histories, imagining different games / Bruce Kidd -- The five rings and the small screen : television, sponsorship, and new media in the Olympic movement / Garry Whannel -- The commercialisation of the Olympics : cities, corporations, and the Olympic commodity / Alan Tomlinson -- Lobbying orgies : Olympic city bids in the post-Los Angeles era / Douglas Booth -- Symbols without substance : aboriginal peoples and the illusions of Olympic ceremonies / Janice Forsyth and Kevin B. Wamsley -- Olympic drug testing : an interpretive history / John Hoberman -- Political violence, terrorism, and security at the Olympic games / Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young