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Summary:

"An examination of the development of the Olympic movement in Puerto Rico in the context of national and political identity"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Sport in Imperial Exchanges
• 2. Rise of a Colonial Olympic Movement, 1930s
• 3. Legitimizing Colonial Olympism in a Colonial Nation, 1940s
• 4. Commonwealth and the Search for Colonial Sovereignty through Olympism
• 5. Cold War Playing Field in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games
• 6. Eternal Overtime?.

Author/Creator:

Sotomayor, Antonio , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The sovereign colony: Olympic sport, national identity, and international politics in Puerto Rico [by Sotomayor, A.]

Subjects:

Olympics — Participation, Puerto Rican

Olympics — Political aspects — Puerto Rico

Nationalism and sports — Puerto Rico

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV721.4.P9 S68 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780803285408 (electronic bk.)
080328540X (electronic bk.)
9780803278813 [Invalid]
0803278810 [Invalid]
9780803285392 [Invalid]
0803285396 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

932626561

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4228726 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12503451