The games : a global history of the Olympics

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The Games : A Global History of the Olympics

by Goldblatt, David

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	List of Illustrations	p. vii
	Introduction	p. 1
1	This Grandiose and Salutary Task: The Reinvention of the Olympic Games	p. 5
2	All the Fun of the Fair: The Olympics at the End of the Belle Ãpoque	p. 53
3	Not the Only Game in Town: The Olympics and Its Challengers in the 1920s	p. 93
4	It's Showtime!: The Olympics as Spectacle	p. 147
5	Small was Beautiful: The Lost Worlds of the Post-war Olympics	p. 193
6	The Image is Still There: Spectacle versus Anti-Spectacle at the Games	p. 231
7	Things Fall Apart: Bankruptcy, Boycotts and the End of Amateurism	p. 287
8	Boom!: The Globalization of the Olympics after the Cold War	p. 327
9	Going South: The Olympics in the New World Order	p. 389
	Conclusion	p. 437
	Notes	p. 447
	Index	p. 491