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The Games : a global history of the Olympics / David Goldblatt.
"The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Gamesby one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time,"--NoveList.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393292770
- ISBN: 0393292770
- Physical Description: 516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in the U.K. by Macmillan Publishers International Limited"--Title-page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-490) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | This grandiose and salutary task : the reinvention of the Olympic Games -- All the fun of the fair : The Olympics at the end of the Belle Epoque -- Not the only game in town : the Olympics and its challengers in the 1920s -- It's showtime! : the Olympics as spectacle -- Small was beautiful : the lost worlds of the post-War Olympics -- The image is still there : spectacle versus anti-spectacle at the Games -- things fall apart : bankruptcy, boycotts, and the end of amateurism -- Boom! : the globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War -- Going south : the Olympics in the new world order. |
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| Subject: | Olympics > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Coldwater Branch | 796.48 GOL (Text) | 35401425013173 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |