The Games : a global history of the Olympics
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: 516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780393292770
- 0393292770
- 796.4809 23
- GV721.5 .G615 2016
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"First published in the U.K. by Macmillan Publishers International Limited"--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-490) and index.
This grandiose and salutary task : the reinvention of the Olympic Games -- All the fun of the fair : The Olympics at the end of the Belle �Epoque -- Not the only game in town : the Olympics and its challengers in the 1920s -- It's showtime! : the Olympics as spectacle -- Small was beautiful : the lost worlds of the post-War Olympics -- The image is still there : spectacle versus anti-spectacle at the Games -- things fall apart : bankruptcy, boycotts, and the end of amateurism -- Boom! : the globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War -- Going south : the Olympics in the new world order.
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