Tag: Christopher Young
Seminal work on the role and function of sport during the Cold War era
The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War, edited by Robert Edelman & Christopher Young (Stanford University Press), examines Cold War rivalries through the lens of sporting activities and competitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. Our reviewer is historian Kristian Gerner, and he finds that the multifaceted analysis in the book reveals how states as well as individual athletes impacted the development of sport and society in the cold war period.
Med sporten som vägvisare
Christian Widholm
Södertörns högskolaAntologin Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe gör i undertiteln bruk av en periodisering jag inte hade sett förut: 1950-2010. Förvisso är alla...
