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Author: Anrd Krüger ,
William Murray ,
William Murray ,
Anrd Krüger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780252028151
ISBN 10: 0252028155
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 12 August 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
ADVANCE It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer. -- Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
""It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer.""--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games ""A solid piece of work, the book is served by informative endnotes for each essay and a general bibliographic essay, useful appendix, and serviceable index.""--Choice ""Includes fascinating treatments of discussions over participation in the Games . . . the result is a well-conceived and well-executed study that greatly increases our knowledge of the domestic conflicts that impacted the various countries' decisions to attend the Winter and Summer Olympics in Hitler's Germany.""--H-Net Book Reviews ""This most recent addition to the University of Illinois' path-breaking series on sport and society . . . [is] of impressively uniform quality as well as coverage.""--Ethnic and Racial Studies
"""It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer.""--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games"
Author Information
Arnd KrÜger is a professor of sport science and head of the Sport and Society Section at Georg-August UniversitÄt, and the author of more than twenty books. He is also a former Olympian and has served as president of the European Committee for the History of Sports. William Murray is a reader in history at La Trobe University and the author of The World's Game: A History of Soccer and The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport, and Society in Scotland.
