| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 311 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 3
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Research in the sociology of sport.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The Olympic Games have become a subject of major importance to students, academics, sports bodies, politicians, urban planners, and the public at large. The Olympic Rings are among the most recognised symbols in the world, and there are few other cultural phenomena that attract such a significant following in the popular media or such widespread support among the nations of the world. "Global Olympics: Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games" draws together some of the world's leading scholars on critical issues emerging from ancient Olympic contests and over one hundred years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Olympics -- History.
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Olympics. |
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History. |
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Olympics -- Social aspects.
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Olympics -- Social aspects. |
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Young, Kevin, 1959-
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Wamsley, Kevin B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Global Olympics. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2005 0762311819 (OCoLC)62133166 |
| ISBN |
0080456855 (electronic book) |
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9780080456850 (electronic book) |
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0762311819 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9780762311811 |
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