East plays West : sport and the Cold War, edited by Stephen Wagg and David L. Andrews

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East plays West : sport and the Cold War, edited by Stephen Wagg and David L. Andrews

Title remainder

sport and the Cold War

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stephen Wagg and David L. Andrews

Instantiates

• East plays West : sport and the Cold War

Publication

• London | New York, Routledge, 2007

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier.

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent.

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, 146-152 / Jennifer Parks -- Cold War expatriot sport: symbolic resistance and international response in Hungarian water polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 156 / Robert E. Rinehart -- Cold War football: British-European encounters in the 140s and 150s / Ronnie Kowalski and Dilwyn Porter -- "Oscillating antagonism": Soviet-British athletics relations, 145-150s / 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, 154-163 / 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 172 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 180 USSR-US men's Olympic ice hockey match and Cold War politics / Mary G. McDonald -- The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 180 and 184: 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

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FIEB16816444

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xii, 338 pages

Isbn

9780415359276

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia.

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• n

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illustrations

Record ID

u273818

System control number

(OCoLC)922573085