Baseball And The Cold War
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Baseball and the Cold War
Author | : Howard Senzel |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X000302681 |
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Postwar United States
Author | : Maggie Combs |
Publsiher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781610802215 |
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This book uses the narrative voice of an historian to take readers on a journey in US history following the end of World War II through the cold war.
Cold War America 1946 To 1990
Author | : Facts on File Inc,Ross Gregory |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9781438107981 |
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Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.
Sandlot Summit
Author | : Rick Fishman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1432718681 |
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It's 1984 and the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union is heating up to a fever pitch. With combat a near certainty, President Ronald Reagan and the infamous Russian General, Kostlitzo "BoneFace" Zolotov, make a secret pact to settle differences, not by fighting a war, but instead, by playing a kids' baseball game.
The Whole World Was Watching
Author | : Robert Edelman,Christopher Young |
Publsiher | : Cold War International History |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503610187 |
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East Plays West
Author | : Stephen Wagg,David Andrews |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781134241682 |
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The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.
The Whole World Was Watching
Author | : Robert Edelman,Christopher Young |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781503611016 |
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In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture—and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide. The Whole World Was Watching examines Cold War rivalries through the lens of sporting activities and competitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. The essays in this volume consider sport as a vital sphere for understanding the complex geopolitics and cultural politics of the time, not just in terms of commerce and celebrity, but also with respect to shifting notions of race, class, and gender. Including contributions from an international lineup of historians, this volume suggests that the analysis of sport provides a valuable lens for understanding both how individuals experienced the Cold War in their daily lives, and how sports culture in turn influenced politics and diplomatic relations.
Cold War Olympics
Author | : Harry Blutstein |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-12-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476686875 |
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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.