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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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CRESC |
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CRESC
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| Contents |
Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe States, media and markets 1950-2010; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sport in Europe 1950-2010: transformation and trends; 1 Soviet physical culture and sport: a European legacy?; 2 East beats West: ice hockey and the Cold War; 3 Communism, youth and sport: the 1973 World Youth Festival in East Berlin; 4 Resurrecting the nation: the evolution of French sports policy from de Gaulle to Mitterand; 5 Bikila's aria: the 1960 Rome Olympics; 6 Sport on Soviet television |
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7 Jeux avec Frontières: television markets and European sport8 Football and media in Europe: a new sport paradigm for the global era; 9 Hosting the Olympic Games: from promoting the nation to nation-branding; 10 Regulatory regimes in European sport; 11 The Europeanization of football: Germany and Austria compared; 12 Why are the European and American sports worlds so different? Path dependence in European and American sports history; Afterword; Index |
| Summary |
In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globaliZation. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations and global markets that have re-shaped national and trans-national cultures in the later twentieth century. The book focuses on the emergence and expansion of media markets, high-performance sport's transformation by, an |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sports -- Europe -- History
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Sports and state -- Europe
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Mass media and sports -- Europe
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Sports -- Economic aspects -- Europe
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Mass media and sports
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Sports
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Sports and state
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Sports -- Economic aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Young, Christopher
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Holt, Richard
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| ISBN |
9780203807163 |
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0203807162 |
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9781136660528 |
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1136660526 |
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