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Author : Richard Espy
Release : 1981-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Olympic Games by : Richard Espy
Download or read book The Politics of the Olympic Games written by Richard Espy. This book was released on 1981-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Boykoff
Release : 2016-05-17
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power Games by : Jules Boykoff
Download or read book Power Games written by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author : Alfred Eric Senn
Release : 2018
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Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games by : Alfred Eric Senn
Download or read book Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games written by Alfred Eric Senn. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.
Author : David B Kanin
Release : 2019-08-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 314/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Political History Of The Olympic Games by : David B Kanin
Download or read book A Political History Of The Olympic Games written by David B Kanin. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
Author : Alan Bairner
Release : 2010-03-09
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis The Politics of the Olympics by : Alan Bairner
Download or read book The Politics of the Olympics written by Alan Bairner. This book was released on 2010-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the ever increasing global significance of the Olympic Games, it has never been more topical to address the political issues that surround, influence and emanate from this quadrennial sporting mega event. In terms of the most recent evidence of the politics of the Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games were riddled with political messages and content from the outset, and provided a global stage for protesters with numerous agendas. These included, to name but a few, proposed boycotts, potential terrorist attacks, the question of open media access, protests against China’s political practices and attempts to interrupt the ‘traditional’ torch rally. Essays in this collection focus on numerous political aspects of the Olympics from a variety of different perspectives, with a Glossary that contains a range of politically relevant entries relating to famous and infamous Olympic athletes, Olympic movement personnel and events and broader political issues and developments which have affected the modern Games. The purpose of this anthology is not to perpetuate hatred towards the concept and practices of Olympism or to regurgitate a ‘celebratory party line’. Instead, in addition to being informative, the book offers critical engagement with the Olympics by raising awareness of the movement’s political significance. Consequently, the essays in this anthology illustrate the strong but changing links between the modern Olympic Games and politics, in general, and address and discuss the key political aspects and issues with regard to the Games themselves, to national and international sport organisations and to specific countries’ attitudes to (ab)using the idea/ideal of the Olympics for their own political ends.
