Global Olympics
Subtitle: historical and sociological studies of the modern games
By: edited by Kevin Young, Kevin B. Wamsley.
Contributors: Young, Kevin, 1959-; Wamsley, Kevin B.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Research in the sociology of sport -- v. 3
Publisher: Elsevier JAI; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Olympics -- History.; Olympics -- Social aspects.; Sports -- Sociological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coubertin's Olympic games : the greatest show on earth / Kevin B. Wamsley and Kevin Young; title: From Olympia 776 BC to Athens 2004 : the origin and authenticity of the modern Olympic games / David Young; title: The Olympic games experience : origins and early challenges / Douglas A. Brown; title: The Nazi Olympics of 1936 / Arnd Krüger; title: The Cold War games / Cesar R. Torres and Mark Dyreson; title: Amateurism, high-performance sport, and the Olympics / Hart Cantelon; title: Olympic men and women : the politics of gender in the modern games / Kevin B. Wamsley and Gertrud Pfister; title: International politics and Olympic governance / Bruce Houlihan; title: 'Another world is possible' : recapturing alternative Olympic histories, imagining different games / Bruce Kidd; title: The five rings and the small screen : television, sponsorship, and new media in the Olympic movement / Garry Whannel; title: The commercialisation of the Olympics : cities, corporations, and the Olympic commodity / Alan Tomlinson; title: Lobbying orgies : Olympic city bids in the post-Los Angeles era / Douglas Booth; title: Symbols without substance : aboriginal peoples and the illusions of Olympic ceremonies / Janice Forsyth and Kevin B. Wamsley; title: Olympic drug testing : an interpretive history / John Hoberman; title: Political violence, terrorism, and security at the Olympic games / Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young.