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

Author: Goldblatt, David, 1965- author.

Imprint:New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Description516 pages : ills. ; 24 cm

Note: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 poque -- 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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