The Games
A Global History of the Olympics
The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. In The Games, David Goldblatt takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history.Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition, this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games.'The Olympics have never really been about sport. As David Goldblatt shows in this bracingly debunking history, from the outset the Games have been a way to project a view of the world, usual…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-9887-8
- EAN: 9781447298878
- Produktnummer: 22511768
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.2 cm x D4.5 cm 409 g
- Gewicht: 409
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
David Goldblatt was born in 1965 and inherited, for his sins, Tottenham Hotspurs from his father. He has published three highly acclaimed books of football: The Ball is Round (2006), an astonishingly ambitious global history of the game, Futebol Nation (2014), a footballing history of Brazil, and The Game of Our Lives (2014) about the meaning and making of English football. He has also edited the World Football Yearbook, made sporting documentaries for BBC Radio, reported for the Guardian and the New York Times and teaches at De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
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