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Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s

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Description for Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s Hardback. Offers a study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before WWII. This book examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, politically resonant, globally popular entertainment extravaganzas. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPS; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 558.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674023260
SKU
V9780674023260
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About Barbara J. Keys
Barbara J. Keys is Associate Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne.

Reviews for Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
A meticulously researched and tightly argued study of a historical trajectory intertwining the dissemination of sport, the rise of an ‘imagined’ global community, and transnational cultural formation in the early 20th century. The book is truly remarkable in its analytical sophistication, breathtaking in the depth and breadth of its multinational archival foundation, and eye-opening in its elucidation of previously overlooked ... Read more

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