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The Games
A Global History of the Olympics
- Pan (MacMillan)
- by David Goldblatt
The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented?
ISBN 9781447298878 | E | B
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| Publisher | Pan (MacMillan) |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781447298878 |
| Author(s) | David Goldblatt |
| Publication date | January 2018 |
| Edition | Pb (B) |
| Dimensions | mm |
| Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed?