| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism and sports.
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Olympics -- Political aspects
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Cold War.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
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Nationalism and sports
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Olympics -- Political aspects
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Sport
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagg, Stephen
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Andrews, David L., 1962-
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| LC no. |
2006019800 |
| ISBN |
0203007115 |
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9780203007112 |
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9781134241682 |
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1134241682 |
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9781134241637 |
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1134241631 |
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9781134241675 |
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1134241674 |
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1283605910 |
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9781283605915 |
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9786613918369 |
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6613918369 |
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