Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended - Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

Summary

This book offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Product details

• Authors: J A (University of Strathclyde Mangan
• Assisted by: Mark Dyreson (Editor), Dyreson Mark (Editor), J A Mangan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2012
• EAN: 9780415641142
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64114-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, Development Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games