A Political History of the Olympics
Paperback
Publication Date: 22/06/2016
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.
- ISBN:
- 9781784780722
- 9781784780722
- Category:
- Olympic & Paralympic games
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 22-06-2016
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210.06x139.7x24.38mm
- Weight:
- 0.37kg
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