This book explores the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and explains how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations. The chapters published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2018-02-06
Language: English
Number of Pages: 182
Edition: 1
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..