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Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia, 1913-1974 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures & Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1: Muscular Christianity and the 'Western Civilizing Mission': Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA, and the Founding of the Far Eastern Championship Games; Chapter 2: The Far Eastern Championship Games and the Western Asiatic Games in the 1920s and 1930s: 'Games of the Asians, by the Asians, for the Asians'
- Chapter 3: Building Nehru's Asia through Sport: The First Asian Games, Decolonization, International Peace, Modernization, and Development (4-11 March 1951)Chapter 4: A 'Free Country' Belonging to the 'Free World': Philippine Independence, Dubious Democracy, and the Second Asian Games (1-9 May 1954); Chapter 5: 'Give Us the Olympic Games': Peaceful Internationalism, 'Reborn' Japan, Olympic-Scale Perfection, and the Third Asian Games (24 May-1 June 1958)
- Chapter 6: Turning Indonesia into the Beacon of a Non-Aligned Asia: The Sukarno Administration, the Fourth Asian Games, and the Struggle against Imperialism and Neocolonialism (24 August-4 September 1962)Chapter 7: The King, the Military, and Thai Development: Hosting the Fifth and the Sixth Asian Games Consecutively (9-20 December 1966 and 1970); Chapter 8: Iran and the Indian Ocean Region Project: The Great Persian Empire, Oil Wealth, and the Seventh Asian Games (1-16 September 1974); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index