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Author : William Mellors Henry,Workman Family Papers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Olympics
ISBN : OCLC:42613210
Author : William Mellors Henry,Patricia Henry Yeomans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Olympics
ISBN : 0882842552
Author : William Mellors Henry,Patricia Henry Yeomans
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : 0882842439
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252070461
Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
Author : International Olympic Committee
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781787397903
Published in association with the International Olympic Committee, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger brings the glorious story of the world's biggest sporting event to life. Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs from every iteration of the modern summer Games, as well as rare documents and memorabilia from the archives of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, this is a celebration of sporting history like no other. From its humble beginnings under the auspices of Pierre de Coubertin to the modern extravaganza that has showcased legendary athletes such as Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Jesse Owens and many more, every edition of the Games is rendered here in fascinating detail, alongside rarely seen artworks and artefacts. Revised, updated and in an exciting new format, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger is the definitive illustrated volume on the world's greatest sporting spectacle. Written with the full co-operation of the International Olympic Committee.
Author : David C. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470777756
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393254112
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Author : Gerald P. Schaus,Stephen R. Wenn
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781554587797
The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games’ history. Leading North American archaeologists and historians of sport explore the origins of the Games, compare the ancient and the modern, discuss the organization and financing of such massive athletic festivals, and examine the participation ,or the troubling lack of it, by women. Onward to the Olympics bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern and concludes with a thought-provoking final essay that attempts to predict the future of the Olympics over the twenty-first century.
Author : David B Kanin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429724312
The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
Author : Moses I. Finley,H. W. Pleket
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007490472
A definitive survey of the Olympic games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261, this scholarly, yet immensely readable account of Olympic athletes in ancient times takes a highly realistic view of these fabled contests. Transporting readers back to the eighth century B.C., Professor M. I. Finley and Dr. H. W. Pleket draw upon their extensive knowledge of the ancient world to explain in absorbing detail the various sporting events and their historical, social, and religious context. They also detail the similarities and differences between ancient and modern games. Through their examination of ancient documents, the authors conclude that today's audiences would be astonished by the brutality exhibited in many of the Olympic events. The ferocity of boxing and wrestling matches, for example, is unparalleled in modern games. No event today could match the spectacle or excitement of the four-horse chariot races in which thirty to forty teams competed. Of special interest were the demands made by the victors, who expected, insisted upon, and procured material rewards for their victories, regardless of class or personal fortune. Richly illustrated with rare artwork, this authoritative account of one thousand years of early Olympic history will appeal not only to classical scholars but to all those interested in sports and athletic events. Book jacket.
Author : Andras Patay-Horvath
Publisher : Archaeolingua
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9639911720
Even in antiquity it was debated when and why the Olympic Games had been established and by whom. Modern scholarship has also advanced a great number of hypotheses on the origins of the games (ranging from funeral games to harvest ceremonies/vegetation magic or even initiation rites), but a truly convincing reconstruction has not yet been formulated. The present volume off ers a new comprehensive explanation for the phenomenon and argues that the Games evolved from hunting and from animal ceremonialism observed among various hunting groups. This explanation is admittedly a hypothetical one, based mainly on the interpretation of the archaeological material and some ethnographic parallels, but conjecture is necessary due to the complete absence of contemporary written evidence. In addition, although it is essentially a simple theory that simultaneously explains many perplexing features of the Games in a coherent way, it must remain without definitive proof, as with all other previous similar explanations. "Anyone who takes issue is allowed a simple remedy: to off er something better, something that is coherent and constructive as an alternative."
Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781784780746
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author : Katharine Marsh (Editor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Olympic games (Ancient)
ISBN : 1803081775
Author : Hugh Harlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125887251X
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Olympics
ISBN : UOM:49015003441780
The dramatic account of the dual history of the worlds foremost sporting spectacle. The story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, together with the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves.