Globalizing Sport

Globalizing Sport
ISBN-10
0674726634
ISBN-13
9780674726635
Category
History
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2013-09-09
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Barbara J. Keys

Description

In this impressive 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. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.

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