Globalizing sport : national rivalry and international community in the 1930s /
"In this book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. She examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 152. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "In this book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. She examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the celebrity-packed, politically resonant, globally popular entertainment extravaganzas familiar to us today. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she details how countries of widely varying ideologies were drawn to participate in the emerging global culture."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674726635 0674726634 0674023269 9780674023260 |
