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The Games : a global history of the Olympics

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780393292770
  • 0393292770
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.4809 23
LOC classification:
  • GV721.5 .G615 2016
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 796.480 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000543516

"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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