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De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Sport, the State, and International Politics -- 2. The Rise of International Sports Organizations -- 3. Democracy and International Sport: The United States -- 4. "Americanizing" the Olympic Games: Los Angeles, 1932 -- 5. Dictatorship and International Sport: Nazi Germany -- 6. Between Nazism and Olympism: Berlin, 1936 -- 7. The Soviet Union and the Triumph of Soccer -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today