Discourses of Olympism : from the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 / Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury...
Discourses of Olympism : from the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 / Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury...
Discourses of Olympism : from the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 / Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, Ian P. Henry, Loughborough University, UK.
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G 2013/668
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English
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viii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Developing Discursive Constructions of Olympism -- The Discursive Construction of Modern Olympic Histories -- Coubertin: Patronage and Paternalistic Discourses of Olympism (1887-1937) -- Carl Diem: Olympism in the Shadow of Fascism and the Post-war R...
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"Most of what has been written in relation to the modern Olympic movement has focused on the Games or more recently on the failings (both in terms of ethics and more practically of governance) of those operating within the Olympic movement. Yet the Olympic movement was intended by Pierre de Coubertin, the central figure in the revival of the Olympi...
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Discourses of Olympism : from the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 / Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, Ian P. Henry, Loughborough University, UK.
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Global culture and sport.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/668
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74VvybBVa2xZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvybBVa2xZ
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0230289576 (hardback)
9780230289574 (hardback)
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796.48
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991016224969702626
