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The Games
- A Global History of the Olympics
Engelsk Paperback
The Games
- A Global History of the Olympics
Engelsk Paperback

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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

From the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of sponsors – this is the definitive sporting, social and political history of the Olympic Games.

''An excellent, pacy, anecdote-studded history of the modern Games'' – The Times


The Olympic Games have become the greatest show on earth. But how was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed?

In The Games, sports historian David Goldblatt takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history.

Beginning with the Olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque and its transformation into a global media spectacular, care of Hollywood and the Nazi party. The Games shows how sport and the Olympics had been a battlefield during the Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes of colour once excluded from the show.

Filled with stories from over a century of Olympic competition – this amazingly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
544
ISBN-13:
9781447298878
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
144729887X
Udg. Dato:
11 jan 2018
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
11 jan 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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