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The 1972 Munich Olympics were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered eleven members of the Israeli team. In this cultural…
The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, whe…
In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture-and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athleti…
In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globaliZation. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, i…
