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010			_a2016002281
020			_a9781784780722
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040			_aDLC _bspa _erda _cDLC _dUIASF
050		4	_aGV 721.5 _bB69.2016
100	1		_aBoykoff, Jules, _eautor
245	1	0	_aPower games : _ba political history of the Olympics / _cJules Boykoff.
250			_aFirst published by Verso 2016.
264		1	_aLondon ; _aBrooklyn, NY : _bVerso, _c2016.
300			_axiv, 338 páginas, [8] páginas de láminas : _bilustraciones ; _c21 cm
336			_atexto _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_asin mediación _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolumen _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas [253]-330) e índice.
520			_a"The Olympics have not always been the commercialized juggernaut we know today, but as Jules Boykoff makes clear in this sto-ry-filled and devastating history, the Games have since their inception had a thoroughly checkered political history. Pierre de Coubertin, the aristocrat who gave birth to the modern olympics, was against allowing women to participate, and allowed African countries to participate only to offset their "individual laziness." Boykoff, a former member of the US olympic soccer team, takes readers from the nineteenth-century origins of the modern Games, through its flirtations with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corrupt, corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-olympics movements, like the Work-ers' games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s to the Gay Games of the 1980s through today"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aOlympics _xPolitical aspects _xHistory.
650		4	_aJuegos olímpicos _xAspectos políticos _xHistoria
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