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The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires
and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one
of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from
41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto,
Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of
the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing
ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city
infrastructural stimulus and economic development. And yet until
this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity
from a scholarly viewpoint. Historicizing the Pan-American Games
presents 12 original articles on the Games. Topics range from the
origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their
urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy
implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire
collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political,
cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western
hemisphere. Historicizing the Pan-American Games makes a
significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic
sport and sport in the western hemisphere. This book was previously
published as a special issue of The International Journal of the
History of Sport.
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires
and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one
of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from
41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto,
Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of
the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing
ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city
infrastructural stimulus and economic development. And yet until
this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity
from a scholarly viewpoint. Historicizing the Pan-American Games
presents 12 original articles on the Games. Topics range from the
origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their
urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy
implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire
collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political,
cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western
hemisphere. Historicizing the Pan-American Games makes a
significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic
sport and sport in the western hemisphere. This book was previously
published as a special issue of The International Journal of the
History of Sport.
"Each of Cesar's twelve tales is a unique thing. No two of them are
quite alike, yet together they create a single impression of a
world radiant with an aura of mystery and magic, a land full of the
bizarre and the dangerous and the beautiful, a shimmering region of
horror, wonder and love." -From the Foreword by Christopher
Fletcher
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