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Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics.

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes? most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarvie, Grant
Otros Autores: Hwang, Dong-Jhy, Brennan, Mel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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