Global Olympics : historical and sociological studies of the modern games /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI,
2005.
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| 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.