Historicizing the Pan-American Games

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Kidd , A former Olympian, has written extensively about the history and politics of the modern Olympic Movement and international sport. He is a Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. Cesar R. Torres is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology and a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Zusammenfassung Historicizing the Pan-American Games examines the western hemisphere’s major integrating sporting and cultural event through 12 case studies researched and written by an outstanding line up of sports historians and Latin Americanists. One of the first titles to focus on this major sporting event, this collection will be the standard reference for years to come. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The History and Relevance of the Pan-American Games 1. The Original Pan-American Games? The 1937 Dallas Pan-American Olympics 2. Turning the Country into an "Immense and Clamorous Stadium": Perón, the New Argentina, and the 1951 Pan-American Games 3. Una Antorcha de Esperanza: Mexico and the 1955 Pan-American Games 4. Historical Erasure and Cold War Inter-American Relations: The Chicago 1959 Pan-American Games 5. Colonial Olympism: Puerto Rico and Jamaica’s Olympic Movement in Pan-American Sport, 1930 to the 1950s 6. Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s 7. Drug Testing, Sex Verification, and the 1967 Pan-American Games 8. The 1971 Pan-American Games and the Search for Colombian Modernities 9. ‘The Event That Shook the Whole World Up’: Historicizing the 1983 Pan-American Games Doping Scandal 10. Cuba’s Challenges Hosting the 1991 Pan-American Games and the Spectacle of the Revolution’s ‘Soft Power’ 11. Paving the Olympic Dream: The Politics of the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro 12. Canada and the Pan-American Games ...

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• Authors: Bruce (University of Toronto Kidd
• Assisted by: Bruce Kidd (Editor), Kidd Bruce (Editor), Cesar Torres (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138219830
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21983-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, International Relations, history of sport, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, The Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games