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Author : Swedish Olympic Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fifth Olympiad written by Swedish Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arihant Experts
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN 13 : 9352512065
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Olympiad Books Practice Sets - Mathematics Class 5th written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leif Yttergren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660066X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The 1912 Stockholm Olympics written by Leif Yttergren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Gustaf V of Sweden inaugurated the Fifth Olympiad at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm on July 6, 1912. In the following weeks, 2,380 competitors from 27 nations representing six continents participated in well-organized competitions in perfect weather conditions. The largest Olympics yet at the time, the Stockholm Games have thus gone down in history as the Sunshine Olympics, or "the Swedish Masterpiece." Since that achievement, and despite numerous attempts by other Swedish cities, Sweden has not yet managed to host the Olympic Games again. This work examines the 1912 Stockholm Olympics from a variety of perspectives, exploring the preparations, organization, competitions, participants, and spectators, as well as the continuing significance of the 1912 Games to Sweden and to the future of the Olympic movement.
Author : Nathaniel Hooke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Roman History ... Illustrated with Maps and Other Plates ... The Fifth Edition written by Nathaniel Hooke and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith M. Barringer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218536
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Olympia written by Judith M. Barringer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia, Judith Barringer provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world, where athletic competitions took place alongside—and were closely connected with—crucial religious and political activities. Barringer describes the development of the Altis, the most sacred area of Olympia, where monuments to athletes successful in the games joined those erected to the gods and battlefield victories. Rival city-states and rulers built monuments to establish eminence, tout alliances, and join this illustrious company in a rich intergenerational dialogue. The political importance of Olympia was matched by its place as the largest sanctuary dedicated to Zeus, king of the gods. Befitting Zeus’s role as god of warfare, the Olympian oracle was consulted to ensure good omens for war, and the athletic games embodied the fierce competition of battle. Other gods and heroes were worshipped at Olympia too, Hera, Artemis, and Herakles among them. Drawing on a comprehensive knowledge of the archaeological record, Barringer describes the full span of Olympia’s history, from the first monumental building around 600 BC to the site’s gradual eclipse in the late Christianized Roman empire. Extensively illustrated with maps and diagrams, Olympia brings the development of Olympia vividly to life for modern readers.
Author : Mark Dyreson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066542
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Making the American Team written by Mark Dyreson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in front of the television would convince any alien that the entirety of American culture is built around sports. Politics and business are abustle with sports metaphors and endorsements by athletes. "Home runs," "bottom of the ninth," "fourth and ten," "slam dunk," and similar phrases litter the daily vocabulary. No matter how dire the news, sports will be reported as usual. How did this single-minded fascination come to be? Mark Dyreson locates the invasion of sport at the heart of American culture at the turn of the century. It was then that social reformers and political leaders believed that sport could revitalize the "republican experiment," that a new sense of national identity could forge a new sense of community and a healthy political order as it would serve to link America's thinking classes with the experiences of the masses. Nowhere was this better exemplified than in American accounts of the Olympic Games held between 1896 and 1912. In connecting sport to American history and culture, Dyreson has stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts
Author : Alan S. Katchen
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815609391
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Abel Kiviat, National Champion written by Alan S. Katchen and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abel Kiviat (1892-1991) was one of track and field’s legendary personalities, a world record-holder and Olympic medalist in the metric mile. A teenage prodigy, he defeated Hall of Fame runners before his twentieth birthday. Alan S. Katchen brings Kiviat’s fascinating story to life and re-creates a lost world, when track and field was at the height of its popularity and occupying a central place in America’s sporting world. The oldest of seven children of Moishe and Zelda Kiviat, Jewish immigrants from Poland, Abel competed as "the Hebrew runner" for New York’s famed Irish-American Athletic Club and was elected its captain. Katchen’s engaging biography centers Abel Kiviat’s life and his sport firmly in the context of American social history. As a quintessential New Yorker, Kiviat embodies the urban and ethnic roots of American track. From his first schoolboy competitions on city playgrounds, to his world records at Madison Square Garden, to his pioneering role as track’s press steward in the age of emerging media, Kiviat’s life reveals how his sport was shaped by the culture of the emerging metropolis. New York City is not only the setting for these developments but also a subject of the book. The narration is enriched with brief portraits of celebrated track athletes including Kiviat’s Olympic roommate, Jim Thorpe. In addition, Katchen offers a detailed account of the I-AAC’s evolution, including its close ties to the Tammany Hall political machine, and sheds light on the rapid modernization of the sport and the ways it provided a vehicle for the assimilation of working-class, immigrant athletes. Finally, Katchen explores the social origins of the ideology of amateurism and its devastating impact on Kiviat’s career. Kiviat died at ninety-nine, just months short of carrying the torch for the opening ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics. Abel Kiviat, National Champion pays tribute to a remarkable athlete and the sport during its most dynamic and celebrated era.
Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317746651
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One written by Jean Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.
Author : Alan Beale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521138205
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Greek Athletics and the Olympics written by Alan Beale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
Author : American Olympic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report of the United States Olympic Committee written by American Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Olympic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Report of the United States Olympic Committee written by United States Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136768254
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Olympic Cities written by John Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympic Cities provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished international authors, it explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city. A thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between Olympic festivals and urban spectacle it: provides overviews of the urban impact of the four component Olympic festivals – the Summer Games, Winter Games, Cultural Olympiads and the Paralympics comprises systematic surveys of four key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics – finance, place promotion, managing spectacle and urban regeneration consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2012, with particular emphasis on the first four Summer Olympic games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading not only for urban and sports historians, urban geographers, planners and all concerned with understanding the relationship between cities and culture, but for anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events.
Author : David Clay Large
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247783
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 written by David Clay Large and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world. The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain. The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee and the determination of its head, Avery Brundage, to participate. Nazi Games also recounts the dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four gold-medal performances and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei Son, the Rising Sun of imperial Japan on his bib.
Author : United States Olympic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book United States ... Olympic Book written by United States Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. Mandell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013256
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Nazi Olympics written by Richard D. Mandell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an expose of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. It provides portraits of key figures including Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Leni Riefenstahl, Helen Stephens, Kee Chung Sohn, and Avery Brundage. It also conveys the charade that reinforced and mobilized the hysterical patriotism of the German masses.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Olympic Games, B.C. 776-A.D. 1896 written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the history of the Olympic games in ancient times, as well as the story of the Olympic games in 1896.
Author : Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer written by Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
