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Cold War Games by Harry Blutstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but Ea ...Show more
Games of Discontent - Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics by Harry Blutstein
$45.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance Ser.
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But the image of peace - a white dove - adopted by organizers was an illu ...Show more
The Ascent of Globalisation by Harry Blutstein
$50.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The book tells the sweeping historical drama of the ascent of globalization, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern world, for better or worse. The asce ...Show more
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