Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Hardcover - Harry Blutstein

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all contin...

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DescriptionIt began in New York City on June 28, 1969. When police raided the Stonewall Inn--a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, known as ...

DescriptionWhen the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricades From the Women's March in D.C. to #Blac...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games? With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and ...

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Reducere. 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perh...

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The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title, but decades later as IOC president he...

This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks, but also th...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M CondeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 16Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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A brilliant introduction to the history of The Olympics, from the traditional games of Ancient Greece, to their revival by Pierre de Coubertin and ...

With insightful essays--in English and Spanish--from Louis A. P rez Jr., America's preeminent Cuba scholar, and Ambrosio Fornet, renowned Cuban aut...

This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoli...

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Drawing on an extensive trove of written and oral sources, Longley explores how President Lyndon Baines Johnson perceived the most significant even...

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In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to ...

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