AuthorToohey, Kristine
TitleThe Olympic Games : a social perspective / Kristine Toohey and A.J. Veal
Imprint Wallingford, Oxon : CABI, c2000
Descript ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Ancient Olympic and their relevance to the modern games -- Revival of the Olympic Games -- Modern Olympic Phenomenon -- POlitics, Nationalism and the Olympic Movement -- Politics, nationalism and the Olympic movement -- Economic and financing of the Games -- The Olympics and the Mass Media -- Drugs in the Olympics -- Women and the Olympic Games


SUBJECT

  1. Olympics -- Social aspects
  2. Olympics -- History

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