Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics 9780228006947, 0228006945

Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics 9780228006930

What was behind the black power salute, boycotts, and political battles that characterized the 1968 Summer Olympics? D

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Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968 9781477307496

In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater dem

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Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London 9780813562032

The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibiti

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Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968 9780822376835

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect

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More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics 9781442620513

More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Se

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Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent 9781107081536, 2015016104

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Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia 1317813170, 9781317813170

President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics

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The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games [1 ed.] 9781613763667, 9781625341648

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikel

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Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide [third edition] 9781501765803

In this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs an

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1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy 9781478002499

Susana Draper puts the events and aftermath of 1968 Mexico into a global picture and counters the dominant cultural narr

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