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Onward to the Olympics : historical perspectives on the Olympic Games
- Title
- Onward to the Olympics : historical perspectives on the Olympic Games / edited by Gerald P. Schaus and Stephen R. Wenn.
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xxvii, 376 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Proceedings of a conference held in Waterloo, Ont., Oct. 3, 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Olympics in antiquity -- An overview : the ancient Olympic games through the centuries / Nigel B. Crowther -- Politics and the Bronze Age origins of Olympic practices / Senta C. German -- Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyl, and the foundation of the Olympic Games / Thomas K. Hubbard -- The first Olympic Games / Max Nelson -- The transformation of athletics in sixth-century Greece / Paul Christesen -- The ancient Olympics and their ideals / Nigel B. Crowther -- Olympic losers : why athletes who did not win at Olympia are remembered / Victor Matthews -- Judges and judging at the ancient Olympic games / David Gilman Romano -- Heroic and athletic Sortition at ancient Olympia / Aileen Ajootian -- Fabulous females and ancient Olympia / Donald G. Kyle -- The Halma : a running or standing jump? / Hugh M. Lee -- Connections between Olympia and Stymphalus / Gerald P. Schaus -- Commemorative cash : the coins of the ancient and modern Olympics / Robert Weir -- Pt. II. The modern Olympics -- An overview : the Olympic Games in modern times / Robert K. Barney -- Duke Kahanamoku - Olympic champion and Uncle Sam's adopted son : the cultural text of a Hawaiian conqueror / Jim Nendel -- Carl Diem's inspiration for the torch relay? : Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, and the origin of the Olympic flame / Robert K. Barney and Anthony Th. Bijkerk -- The great progression : a content analysis of the lake placid news and the Los Angeles times' treatment of the 1932 Olympics / Jonathan Paul -- Womanizing Olympic athletes : policy and practice during the avery brundage era / Kevin B. Wamsley -- The bridge to change : the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, South African apartheid policy, and the Olympic boycott paradigm / Courtney W. Mason -- Splitting hairs : the struggle between the Canadian federal government and the organizing committee of the 1976 Torontolympiad concerning South African participation / David A. Greig -- Juan Antonio Samaranch's score sheet : revenue generation and the Olympic movement, 1980-2001 / Stephen R. Wenn and Scott G. Martyn -- Olympic ideals : pragmatic method and the future of the games / Tim Elcombe -- "To construct a better and more peaceful world" or "war minus the shooting"? : the Olympic movement's second century / Mark Dyreson.
- ISBN
- 0889205051
- 9780889205055
- OCLC
- ocm78042856
- SCSB-5319150
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries