The 1906 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609519
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1906 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the early concepts of the Olympic Games was to include "intercalated" Games every four years between the normal cycle, and to hold these Games in Athens, the ancestral home of the Olympics. In 1906 the first, and only one, of these games was held. Occurring only two years after the St. Louis Games of 1904 and two years before the London Games of 1908, the Athens Games were considered by many not to be "official"; social and political forces prevented continuation of the intercalation cycle in 1910 and later. Yet these Games were surprisingly successful and helped guarantee the survival of the modern Olympics. This book, fourth in the series on the early Olympics, presents all the data on 29 nation and city-state participants in more than a dozen events in the Athens Games. Scores and descriptions are provided, and many historical errors and omissions in other sources are corrected. Appendices include the published program for the Games, the actual schedule followed during the Games, and country-by country listings of all participating athletes.

Author : James Edward Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Games at Athens, 1906 written by James Edward Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Edward Sullivan
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344549694
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Games at Athens, 1906 written by James Edward Sullivan and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James E. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olympic Games at Athens written by James E. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Edward 1862-1914 Sullivan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371789114
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OLYMPIC GAMES AT ATHENS 1906 written by James Edward 1862-1914 Sullivan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book International Olympic Games at Athens (April 22nd - May 2nd 1906) written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl A. Posey
Publisher : World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781888383041
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The III 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 : Matthew P. Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317979761
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games written by Matthew P. Llewellyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Lambis Nikolaou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789608744974
Total Pages : 399 pages
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Download or read book Athens, Olympic City 1896-1906 written by Lambis Nikolaou and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803210981
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games written by Susan Brownell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World?s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair?s ethnic displays to compete in sports events, with the ?scientific? goal of measuring the physical prowess of ?savages? as compared with ?civilized men.? This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World?s Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant. A turning point in both the history of the Olympics and the development of modern anthropology, these games expressed the conflict between the Old World emphasis on culture and New World emphasis on utilitarianism. Marked by Franz Boas?s paper at the Scientific Congress, the events in St. Louis witnessed the beginning of the shift in anthropological research from nineteenth-century evolutionary racial models to the cultural relativist paradigm that is now a cornerstone of modern American anthropology. Racist pseudoscience nonetheless reappears to this day in the realm of sports.