Beyond boycotts : sport during the Cold War in Europe / edited by Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti, Grégory Quin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vonnard, Philippe, editor.

Sbetti, Nicola.

Quin, Grégory.

Series:

Rethinking the cold war ; 1.

Rethinking the cold war ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Europe--History--20th century.

Sports.

Sports--Political aspects--Europe--History--20th century.

Cold War--Social aspects--Europe.

Cold War.

Cold War--Political aspects--Europe.

Social aspects.

Sports--Political aspects.

History.

Europe--History--20th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018.

Summary:

"During the Cold War, sport was used as a means of diplomacy between the two blocks, allowing exchanges between East and West across the Iron Curtain. Focusing on Europe, this book offers new insights in sports history, a growing research field, which up to know offered relatively few studies on the Cold War era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

First Part Creating relations between European states. Sport as tool of diplomacy

Playing at the border of the Cold War: The case of the city of Trieste (1945-1948) / Nicola Sbetti Sbetti, Nicola 17

An Even Colder War?: Specialization and Scientization in the Training methods for Cross-Country Skiing from the 1940s in Sweden and the Soviet Union / Daniel Svensson Svensson, Daniel, Anna Åberg Åberg, Anna 33

Athletes of Diplomacy: Francoism, Sport and the Cold War during the 1960s / Juan Antonio Simón Simón, Juan Antonio 55

Second part A European space of exchanges. Crossing the Iron Curtain with sport

The emergence of Europe-wide collaboration and competition: Soviet sports interactions in Europe. 1945-mid-1960s. / Sylvain Dufraisse Dufraisse, Sylvain 71

Building bridges between separated Europeans: The role of UEFA's competitions in East-West exchanges (1955-1964) / Philippe Vonnard Vonnard, Philippe, Kevin Marston Marston, Kevin 85

Cooperation and conflict: The case of the European Sports Conference in the 1970s and 1980s / Stefan Scholl Scholl, Stefan 109

Third Part Globalizing sport. Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy

"Shooting Hoops with Foreign Teams": Basketball Ambassadors on US Military Bases in France (1916-1961) / François Doppler-Speranza Doppler-Speranza, François 135

The Ghana Young Pioneers: Intertwining global connections to build a Pan-Africanist youth / Claire Nicolas Nicolas, Claire 157

"The Russian deadpan expert" vs "America's white hope": The personal, the national, and the global in the "Cold War" of chess / Souvik Naha Naha, Souvik 179

A forgotten "ping-pong diplomacy"?: About the Chinese ping-pong players' tour of Switzerland (1972) / Quentin Tonnerre Tonnerre, Quentin, Grégory Quin Quin, Grégory 195.

ISBN:

9783110526660

3110526662

OCLC:

1019839987