Power Games : A Political History of the Olympics
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784780723
ISBN-13
9781784780722
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 17th, 2016
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
20.60 x 13.00 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Olympic & Paralympic gamesHistory of sport
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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.
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