Globalizing Sport National Rivalry and International Community in The 1930s

Name: Globalizing Sport National Rivalry and International Community in The 1930s
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ISBN: 9780674725706

ISBN-10: 0674725700

ISBN-13: 9780674725706

Edition: 2013

Authors: Barbara J. Keys

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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. She examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, celebrity-packed, politically resonant, globally popular entertainment extravaganzas familiar to us today. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she details how countries of widely varying ideologies were drawn to participate in the emerging global culture. She tells of Hollywood and Coca-Cola jazzing up the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, of…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Barbara J. Keys is Senior Lecturer in American and International History at the University of Melbourne.



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Sport, the State, and International Politics



The Rise of International Sports Organizations



Democracy and International Sport: The United States



"Americanizing" the Olympic Games: Los Angeles, 1932



Dictatorship and International Sport: Nazi Germany



Between Nazism and Olympism: Berlin, 1936



The Soviet Union and the Triumph of Soccer


Conclusion


Abbreviations Used in Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index