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Power, politics, and the Olympic Games / Alfred Erich Senn.
Van Pelt Library GV721.5 .S443 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Senn, Alfred Erich.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International Olympic Committee.
- Olympics--Political aspects--History.
- Olympics.
- Sports and state--History.
- Sports and state.
- Brundage, Avery.
- International Olympic Committee--History.
- History.
- Olympics--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [1999]
- Summary:
- Senn explodes the myth of the purely athletic Olympic games. Obscured by a mixture of pseudo-religious ritual and show business, Senn reveals the Olympic games to have served as a global forum for ideological issues, the enactment of surrogate war among international rivals, and a vehicle for nationalism. He traces the crude early beginnings of the Olympic movement though its evolution into the media and merchandising event it is today
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0880119586
- OCLC:
- 40174970
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