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The Modern Olympics
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Author : David C. Young
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-04
The Modern Olympics written by David C. Young and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with History categories.
Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.
The First Modern Olympics
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Author : Richard D. Mandell
language : en
Publisher: Blacktoad Publishing
Release Date : 1976
The First Modern Olympics written by Richard D. Mandell and has been published by Blacktoad Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
The Olympics
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Author : Allen Guttmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2002
The Olympics written by Allen Guttmann and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
The Olympic Games Explained
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Author : Vassil Girginov
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
The Olympic Games Explained written by Vassil Girginov and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This new student textbook explores the history and meaning of the modern Olympic Games, providing a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through to the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee.
A Brief History Of The Olympic Games
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Author : David C. Young
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Brief History Of The Olympic Games written by David C. Young and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with History categories.
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
The Games
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Author : Carole Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: Black Dog Books
Release Date : 2012
The Games written by Carole Wilkinson and has been published by Black Dog Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Olympics categories.
"The games. It is why we are transfixed by the Olympic Games every four years. The runner who hitched a lift in the marathon. The wrestling match that lasted twelve hours. The men and women who reflect the best and worst in all of us. The funny, bizarre and touching moments that people are still talking about. These are the highs and lows of the modern Olympics."--Back cover.
Olympics In Athens 1896
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Author : Michael Llewellyn Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Olympics In Athens 1896 written by Michael Llewellyn Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Olympic Games categories.
A rich and entertaining work of history, Olympics in Athens 1896 brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in competing countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
An Archaeology Of The Modern Olympics
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Author : Tim Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: Machine Books
Release Date : 2016-08-01
An Archaeology Of The Modern Olympics written by Tim Abrahams and has been published by Machine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with History categories.
This is the first in a series of essays that considers the artefacts produced by the modern Olympic movement as artefacts worthy of analysis on their own terms. It is the first in a series of ten such analyses which consider the material production of all the Olympics going back to the late 19th century. The essays consider different typologies in an attempt chart the progress of the Olympics and vitally to account for its enduring popularity. Vitally it considers material production as a means of understanding how those hosting and participating in the Olympics have understood and interpreted the Games and used them for their own ends.
Modern Olympics
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Author : Haydn Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 2003-09
Modern Olympics written by Haydn Middleton and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides an overview of the modern Olympics that began again in 1896, describing some of the competitive events, looking at how host cities are chosen, profiling various modern Olympic champions, and more.
The Games
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Author : David Goldblatt
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-07-14
The Games written by David Goldblatt and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed? In The Games, David Goldblatt - winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award - takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the Olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque and its transformation into a global media spectacular, care of Hollywood and the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport and the Olympics had been a battlefield during the Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes of colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition - this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.