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_c$29.95
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050 0 0 _aGV721.5
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082 0 0 _a796.4809
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100 1 _aGoldblatt, David,
_d1965-
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe Games : a global history of the Olympics
250 _aFirst edition.
300 _a516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
500 _a"First published in the U.K. by Macmillan Publishers International Limited"--Title-page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [447]-490) and index.
505 0 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aOlympics
_xHistory.
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655 7 _aHistory.
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