Global Olympics : historical and sociological studies of the modern games /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Young, Kevin, 1959-, Wamsley, Kevin B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Research in the sociology of sport.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.