East plays West : sport and the Cold War / edited by Stephen Wagg and David L. Andrews.
Material type: TextPublisher: Abingdon [England] : Routledge, 2007Description: xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415359260
- 9780415359269
- 0415359279
- 9780415359276
- 306.483 22
- GV706.34 .E37 2006
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.483 EAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A373298B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : war minus the shooting? / David L. Andrews and Stephen Wagg -- 1. Totalitarian regimes and Cold War sport : steroid "Ubermenschen" and "ball-bearing females" / Rob Beamish and Ian Ritchie -- 2. Verbal gymnastics : sports, bureacracy, and the Soviet Union's entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946-1952 / Jenifer Parks -- 3. Cold War expatriate sport : symbolic resistance and international response in Hungarian water polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 / Robert E. Rinehart -- 4. Cold War football : British-European encounters in the 1940s and 1950s / Ronnie Kowalski and Dilwyn Porter -- 5. "Oscillating antagonism" : Soviet-British athletics relations, 1945-1960 / John Bale -- 6. "If you want the girl next door ..." : Olympic sport and the popular press in early Cold War Britain / Stephen Wagg -- 7. The "muscle gap" : physical education and US fears of a depleted masculinity, 1954-1963 / Jeffrey Montez De Oca -- 8. Good versus evil? : drugs, sport and the Cold War / Paul Dimeo -- 9. The Cold War and the (re)articulation of Canadian national identity : the 1972 Canada-USSR summit series / Jay Scherer, Gregory H. Duquette and Daniel S. Mason -- 10. "One day when the Yankees ..." : Cuban baseball, the United States and the Cold War / Milton H. Jamail -- 11. Playing the "race card" : US foreign policy and the integration of sports / Damion Thomas -- 12. "Miraculous" masculinity meets militarization : narrating the 1980 USSR-US men's Olympic ice hockey match and Cold War politics / Mary G. McDonald -- 13. The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984 : explaining the boycotts to their own people / Evelyn Mertin -- 14. "Sport and politics don't mix" : China's relationship with the IOC during the Cold War / Susan Brownell -- 15. Sport after the Cold War : implications for Russia and Eastern Europe / James Riordan -- 16. Performing America's past : Cold War fantasies in a perpetual state of war / Michael Silk, Bryan Bracey and Mark Falcous -- 17. 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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