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The Games : a global history of the Olympics / David Goldblatt.

by Goldblatt, David, 1965-

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W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Olympics -- History.

9780393292770 (hc.)

516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

"First published in the U.K. by Macmillan Publishers International Limited"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-490) and index.

This grandiose and salutary task : the reinvention of the Olympic Games -- All the fun of the fair : The Olympics at the end of the Belle Époque -- Not the only game in town : the Olympics and its challengers in the 1920s -- It's showtime! : the Olympics as spectacle -- Small was beautiful : the lost worlds of the post-War Olympics -- The image is still there : spectacle versus anti-spectacle at the Games -- Things fall apart : bankruptcy, boycotts, and the end of amateurism -- Boom! : the globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War -- Going south : the Olympics in the new world order.

The reinvention and modern history of the Olympic Games, from its rebirth in 1896 Athens to the present. All the classic moments of highest achievement and how women fought to be included in the Olympics on equal terms; how the wounded of World War II led to the Paralympics; and how the Olympics reflect changing attitudes to race and ethnicity.

"The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Games--by one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time,"--NoveList.

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