Jim Riordan

The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first of its kind. It provides a wide ranging perspective through time and place and will be an invaluable tool for students studying sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138144835
• ISBN-10: 1138144835
• Artikelnr.: 69948224

Autorenporträt

Arnd Kruger is Professor and head of the 'Sport and Society' section of the Department of Sport Science at the Georg-Augist University in Germany. He has served as Dean of Faculty of Sport Sciences and is Past-President of the European Committee for Sport History. He has published widely on political aspects of sports mainly in the 19th & 20th Century

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: The unfinished symphony. A History of the Olympic
Games from. Coubertin to Samaranch. FIFA. The impact of communism on sport.
Strength through joy. The culture of consent under fascism, nazism and
Francoism. Religion and Sport. The worker sports movement. Part 2: Women in
sport and society. The rise of black athletes in the USA. Disability sport.
The homosexual and homoerotic in sport. Sport and terrorism. Sport in South
Africa. Index.