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The Games : a global history of the Olympics / David Goldblatt.
By: Goldblatt, David [author.]
.Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2016Description: 516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447298847.Subject(s): Olympics -- HistoryDDC classification: 796.4809
Contents:
1. This grandiose and salutary task : the reinvention of the Olympic Games -- 2. All the fun of the fair : The Olympics at the end of the Belle Époque -- 3. Not the only game in town : the Olympics and its challengers in the 1920s -- 4. It's showtime! : the Olympics as spectacle -- 5. Small was beautiful : the lost worlds of the post-War Olympics -- 6. The image is still there : spectacle versus anti-spectacle at the Games -- 7. Things fall apart : bankruptcy, boycotts, and the end of amateurism -- 8. Boom! : the globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War -- 9. Going south : the Olympics in the new world order.
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| 796.358094209033 UND Start of play : | 796.358095493 BRO An island's eleven : the story of Sri Lankan cricket / | 796.35862 TIT Eton & Harrow at Lord's / | 796.4809 GOL The Games : | 796.4809043 RIP Hitler's Olympics : the story of the 1936 Nazi Games / | 796.480941 POL The British Olympics : | 796.522092 SIM Touching the void / |
1. This grandiose and salutary task : the reinvention of the Olympic Games -- 2. All the fun of the fair : The Olympics at the end of the Belle Époque -- 3. Not the only game in town : the Olympics and its challengers in the 1920s -- 4. It's showtime! : the Olympics as spectacle -- 5. Small was beautiful : the lost worlds of the post-War Olympics -- 6. The image is still there : spectacle versus anti-spectacle at the Games -- 7. Things fall apart : bankruptcy, boycotts, and the end of amateurism -- 8. Boom! : the globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War -- 9. Going south : the Olympics in the new world order.