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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “heather dichter”
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  • Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games

    International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO

    by Heather L. Dichter ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    Winner of the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize from the British Society of Sports HistoryDuring the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Olympic Winter Games at 100

    Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter, Sarah Teetzel ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games.This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Berlin Sports

    Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter, Molly Wilkinson Johnson ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    In many American cities, individual athletes, professional teams, and university sports are integral to the cities’ sporting identities. Berlin, in contrast, features no single hallmark sport, team, or annual event. Five political regimes, wartime destruction, and four decades of division instead fostered ever-changing teams, allegiances, and venues. Yet, the desire to play and watch sport ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Diplomatic Games

    Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter, Andrew L. Johns ...
    How events like the Olympics and World Cup have affected international relations: "A significant contribution to historical knowledge and understanding." ?Peter J. Beck, author of Scoring for BritainInternational sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olympic Reform Ten Years Later

    Edited by Heather Dichter, Bruce Kidd ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms were initiated in response to the deep crises of legitimacy it faced because of the Salt Lake City ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

    Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure—especially those deriving from the leading hotbeds of European sport history.This anthology adds to the growing corpus of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Soccer Diplomacy

    International Relations and Football since 1914

    Edited by Heather L. Dichter ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    Although the game of soccer is known by many names around the world—football, fútbol, Fußball, voetbal—the sport is a universal language. Throughout the past century, governments have used soccer to further their diplomatic aims through a range of actions including boycotts, carefully orchestrated displays at matches, and more. In turn, soccer organizations have leveraged their power over ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Games

    A Global History of the Olympics

    by David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe 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 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Soccer vs. the State

    Tackling Football and Radical Politics

    by Gabriel Kuhn ...
    Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political protests by players and fans, and a current radical soccer underground, the notion of football as the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

    by Dave Zirin ...
    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Circus Maximus

    The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

    by Andrew Zimbalist ...
    Athletes compete for national honor in Olympic and World Cup games. But the road to these mega events is paved by big business. We all know who the winners on the field are-but who wins off the field?The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and Russia spent $50 billion for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Brazil's total expenditures are ... Read more

    $23.09 USD