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The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games
when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport
for political ends. In Helsinki, the Soviet Union nearly overtook
the United States in the medal count. Caught off guard, the U.S.
hastened to respond, certain that the Soviets would use a victory
at the next Olympics to broadcast their superiority over the
Western world. Following the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian
uprising, a Soviet athlete struck a Hungarian opponent in the
Melbourne water polo semifinals, turning the pool red. The United
States covertly encouraged Eastern Bloc athletes to defect,
communist Chinese agents nearly succeeded in goading the Taiwanese
government into withdrawing from the games, and a forbidden romance
between an American and Czech athlete resulted in a politically
complex marriage. This history describes those stories and more
that resulted from the complicated relationship between Cold War
politics and the Olympics.
The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of
the development of globalisation, 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.
Profiling their lives, ideas and struggles reveals fresh insights
into the nature of globalisation. The book also examines their
legacies, shedding new light on many of the problems the world
faces today: the global financial crisis, the political and
economic malaise afflicting Europe, the numerous failures of the
United Nations, the unchecked power of corporations and the
inability of governments to cooperate on critical issues such as
climate change. -- .
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 illusion, as was obvious
to a record six hundred million people watching worldwide on
satellite television. Ten days before the opening ceremony,
soldiers slaughtered hundreds of student protesters in the capital.
In Games of Discontent Harry Blutstein presents vivid accounts of
threatened boycotts to protest racism in the United States, South
Africa, and Rhodesia. He describes demonstrations by Czechoslovak
gold medal gymnast Vera Caslavska against the Soviet-led invasion
of her country. The most dramatic moment of the Olympic Games was
Tommie Smith and John Carlos's black power salute from the podium.
Blutstein furnishes new details behind their protest and examines
how this iconic image seared itself into historical memory,
inspiring Colin Kaepernick and a new generation of
athlete-activists to take a knee against racism decades later. The
1968 Summer Games became a microcosm of the discord happening
around the globe. Describing a range of protest activities
preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympics, Games of Discontent
shines light on the world during a politically transformative
moment when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize
their protests.
The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of
the development of globalisation, 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.
Profiling their lives, ideas and struggles reveals fresh insights
into the nature of globalisation. The book also examines their
legacies, shedding new light on many of the problems the world
faces today: the global financial crisis, the political and
economic malaise afflicting Europe, the numerous failures of the
United Nations, the unchecked power of corporations and the
inability of governments to cooperate on critical issues such as
climate change. -- .
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