Power games : a political history of the Olympics / Jules Boykoff.
"The Olympics have not always been the commercialized juggernaut we know today, but as Jules Boykoff makes clear in this story-filled and devastating history, the Games have since their inception had a thoroughly checkered political history. Pierre de Coubertin, the aristocrat who gave birth to...
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London :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Operation Olympic Games"
- 1. Coubertin and the Revival of the Olympic Games
- 2. Alternatives to the Olympics
- 3. Cold War Games
- 4. Commercialization of the Olympics
- 5. The Celebration Capitalism Era
- 6. The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics and the Path Ahead.