ISBN:
0203007115
,
1134241682
,
9780203007112
,
9781134241682
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 338 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als East plays West
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Nationalism and sports
;
Olympics Political aspects
;
Cold War
;
Olympics ; Political aspects
;
Sport
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
SPORTS & RECREATION ; Sociology of Sports
;
Nationalism and sports
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Totalitarian regimes and Cold War sport: steroid "Ubermenschen" and "ball-bearing females" / Rob Beamish and Ian Ritchie -- Verbal gymnastics: sports, bureacracy, and the Soviet Union's entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946-1952 / Jennifer Parks -- Cold War expatriot sport: symbolic resistance and international response in Hungarian water polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 / Robert E. Rinehart -- Cold War football: British-European encounters in the 1940s and 1950s / Ronnie Kowalski and Dilwyn Porter -- "Oscillating antagonism": Soviet-British athletics relations, 1945-1950s / John Bale -- "If you want the girl next door ... ": Olympic sport and the popular press in early Cold War Britain / Stephen Wagg -- The "muscle gap": physical education and US fears of a depleted masculinity, 1954-1963 / Jeffrey Montez de Oca -- Good versus evil? Drugs, sport and the Cold War / Paul Dimeo -- The Cold War and the (re)articulation of Canadian national identity: the 1972 Canada-USSR summit series / Jay Scherer, Gregory H. Duquette and Daniel S. Mason -- "One day when the Yankees ... ": Cuban baseball, the United States and the Cold War / Milton H. Jamail -- Playing the race card": US foreign policy and the integration of sports / Damion Thomas -- "Miraculous" masculinity meets militarization: narrating the 1980 USSR-US men's Olympic ice hockey match and Cold War politics / Mary G. McDonald -- The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: explaining the boycotts to their own people / Evelyn Mertin -- "Sport and politics don't mix": China's relationship with the IOC during the Cold War / Susan Brownell -- Sport after the Cold War: implications for Russia and Eastern Europe / James Riordan -- Performing America's past: Cold War fantasies in a perpetual state of war / Michael Silk, Bryan Bracey and Mark Falcous -- Beyond the stadium and into the street: sport and anti-Americanism in South Korea / Eunha Koh, David L. Andrews and Ryan White
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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