Modern Sports and Diplomacy
Global Games
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2031
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-415-84015-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book places sports in a global historical context in order to show how they influence world politics and the world economy (and vice versa), and explaining the influence of sports at certain moments in global politics and world economic developments. Viewing sports in relation to key elements of world history - capitalist growth, investment, and marketing, ideology and security, institutional integration, immigration, nationalism, civil and human rights, tensions between democracies and dictatorships, universalism and isolationism - the book explores the ways in which professional sports, like other cultural phenomena, shape, or at least factor into, international politics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-84015-6 (9780415840156)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Thomas W. Zeiler is Professor of American Diplomatic and U.S. Economic History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Content
1. Sporting Regimes in History 2. Dictators and Democracies 3. Conflict, War, and Terrorism 4. Universalism and Nationalism 5. Cold War Realism 6. Civil and Human Rights 7. Modernization and Development 8. Globalization, Commerce, and Consumerism