| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Totalitarian regimes and Cold War sport: steroid "Ubermenschen" and "ball-bearing females" / Rob Beamish and Ian Ritchie -- Verbal gymnastics: sports, bureacracy, and the Soviet Union's entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946-1952 / Jennifer Parks -- Cold War expatriot sport: symbolic resistance and international response in Hungarian water polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 / Robert E. Rinehart -- Cold War football: British-European encounters in the 1940s and 1950s / Ronnie Kowalski and Dilwyn Porter -- "Oscillating antagonism": Soviet-British athletics relations, 1945-1950s / John Bale -- "If you want the girl next door ... ": Olympic sport and the popular press in early Cold War Britain / Stephen Wagg -- The "muscle gap": physical education and US fears of a depleted masculinity, 1954-1963 / Jeffrey Montez de Oca -- Good versus evil? Drugs, sport and the Cold War / Paul Dimeo -- The Cold War and the (re)articulation of Canadian national identity: the 1972 Canada-USSR summit series / Jay Scherer, Gregory H. Duquette and Daniel S. Mason -- "One day when the Yankees ... ": Cuban baseball, the United States and the Cold War / Milton H. Jamail -- Playing the race card": US foreign policy and the integration of sports / Damion Thomas -- "Miraculous" masculinity meets militarization: narrating the 1980 USSR-US men's Olympic ice hockey match and Cold War politics / Mary G. McDonald -- The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: explaining the boycotts to their own people / Evelyn Mertin -- "Sport and politics don't mix": China's relationship with the IOC during the Cold War / Susan Brownell -- Sport after the Cold War: implications for Russia and Eastern Europe / James Riordan -- Performing America's past: Cold War fantasies in a perpetual state of war / Michael Silk, Bryan Bracey and Mark Falcous -- Beyond the stadium and into the street: sport and anti-Americanism in South Korea / Eunha Koh, David L. Andrews and Ryan White. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Nationalism and sports.
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Nationalism and sports. |
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Olympics -- Political aspects.
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Olympics -- Political aspects. |
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Cold War.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wagg, Stephen.
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Andrews, David L., 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: East plays West. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 0415359260 (DLC) 2006019800 (OCoLC)70131149 |
| ISBN |
0203007115 (electronic book) |
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9780203007112 (electronic book) |
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9781134241682 (electronic book) |
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1134241682 (electronic book) |
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0415359260 |
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9780415359269 |
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0415359279 |
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9780415359276 |
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