Barbara J Keys
Biographic Data
| ID | 8497315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara J Keys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara J |
| FAMILY NAME | Keys |
| SIGNATURE | KEYS B J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ideals of Global Sport
Does international sport make the world a better place? This volume critically examines the claims that global sports events promote peace, mutual understanding, antiracism, and democracy, and exposes repeated shortcomings in human rights protection, from the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games to Brazil's 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
The League of Nations and the Internationalization of Imperialism
After the First World War, the Allies, self-servingly declaring the Germans and the Turks to have forfeited the “civilizational standing” required of imperial powers, stripped the losers of their colonies. But thanks to President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic vision of a peace without land grabs, those colonies were not seized outright. The compromise solution brokered by the British parcelled them out to “civilized” overseers, who were in turn ove…
Globalizing Sport
Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.
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Globalizing Sport
Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.
The League of Nations and the Internationalization of Imperialism
After the First World War, the Allies, self-servingly declaring the Germans and the Turks to have forfeited the “civilizational standing” required of imperial powers, stripped the losers of their colonies. But thanks to President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic vision of a peace without land grabs, those colonies were not seized outright. The compromise solution brokered by the British parcelled them out to “civilized” overseers, who were in turn ove…
The Ideals of Global Sport
Does international sport make the world a better place? This volume critically examines the claims that global sports events promote peace, mutual understanding, antiracism, and democracy, and exposes repeated shortcomings in human rights protection, from the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games to Brazil's 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Sociology (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Colonial rule (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Commission (1 work) · Compromise (1 work)