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Author : Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1134241682

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The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.

Author : Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1134241674

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The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.

Author : Attila Melegh
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326240

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Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. While the fundamental poles of East and West remain, both their meaning and their relationship to one another have shifted profoundly since the late 1970s. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault and more recently Maria Todorova and Iver Neumann. This work casts into fine relief how the "East-West Slope" oriented negatively from West to East has emerged from liberal characterizations of this project. The book analyzes the historical change in East-West discourses from a modernizationist type to a new/old civilizational one. In addition, this is one of the first attempts to link post-colonial analysis to developments in Eastern Europe.

Author : Ping Chong
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559362290

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Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804152330

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From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. "Richly nuanced, full or humor, bitter anger, an embracing tenderness, and a buyancy of language." —Boston Globe

Author : Nancy Willard
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.

Author : Richard Bernstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0375713891

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In this wide-ranging history, Richard Bernstein explores the connection between sex and power as it has played out between Eastern cultures and the Western explorers, merchants, and conquerors who have visited them. This illuminating book describes the historical and ongoing encounter between these travelers and the morally ambiguous opportunities they found in foreign lands. Bernstein’s narrative teems with real figures, from Marco Polo and his investigation into the harem of Kublai Khan; the nineteenth-century American missionary Isabella Thoburn and her efforts to stamp out the “sinfulness” of the Mughal culture of India; Gustave Flaubert and his dalliances with Egyptian prostitutes; to modern-day sex tourists in Southeast Asia, as well as the women that they both exploit and enrich. Provocative and insightful, The East, The West, and Sex is a lucid look at a pervasive and yet mostly ignored subject.

Author : Larry Lester
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803280007

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A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.

Author : Philippe Sands
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0525433724

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A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities. This is “a monumental achievement ... told with love, anger and precision” (John le Carré, acclaimed internationally bestselling author). East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in “the Paris of Ukraine,” a major cultural center of Europe, a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. Phillipe Sands changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder

Author : Leonard C. Pronko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520312708

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.