The 1900 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489529
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1900 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed “The Farcical Games.” The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an international sporting event in Paris in 1900. No official records of the 1900 Olympics exist. Based primarily on 1900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for all of the 1900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.

Author : Carl A. Posey
Publisher : World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781888383034
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The II Olympiad written by Carl A. Posey and published by World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Burman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542745963
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zany Games written by Howard Burman and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America's athletes at the 1900 Paris Olympics and Exposition.

Author : Stephanie Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'A Proper Spectacle' written by Stephanie Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erich Kamper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788885202351
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Book of the Olympic Games written by Erich Kamper and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822534363
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America in the 1900s written by Marlene Targ Brill and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1900 to 1909.

Author : Matthew P Llewellyn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098773
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism written by Matthew P Llewellyn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements. Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation took place. Drawing on Olympic archives and a wealth of research across media, the authors examine how an elite--white, wealthy, often Anglo-Saxon--controlled and shaped an enormously powerful myth of amateurism. The myth assumed an air of naturalness that made it seem unassailable and, not incidentally, served those in power. Llewellyn and Gleaves trace professionalism's inroads into the Olympics from tragic figures like Jim Thorpe through the shamateur era of under-the-table cash and state-supported athletes. As they show, the increasing acceptability of professionals went hand-in-hand with the Games becoming a for-profit international spectacle. Yet the myth of amateurism's purity remained a potent force, influencing how people around the globe imagined and understood sport. Timely and vivid with details, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism is the first book-length examination of the movement's foundational ideal.

Author : Corry Cropper
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803218990
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing at Monarchy written by Corry Cropper and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, M(r)rim(r)e, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today

Author : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766069214
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1900s written by Stephen Feinstein and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, human beings were in control of their environment. Airplanes, trains, and the first diesel engines let people go faster and farther than ever before. The birth of modern art and sound recording promised new cultural heights, while the invention of jazz music and the popularization of low-cost photography managed to bring societies closer together. This decade, from its arts and fashion to its politics and technological advancements, would help shape a culture and set the stage for the century ahead.

Author : David Wallechinsky
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845136956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of the Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.