Overview
- Uses the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City as a lens to look at five years of nation-building projects
- Highlights the multiplicity of voices behind these nation-building exercises
- Takes a bottom-up approach to look at the citizenry’s experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics (PASSP)
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Book Title: Mexico City's Olympic Games
Book Subtitle: Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968
Authors: Axel Elías
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74111-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74110-5Published: 27 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74113-6Published: 28 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74111-2Published: 25 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-998X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Topics: Latin American History, Sport Science , Cultural History