New Book Out Now: Foundations of Managing British Olympics

 

It has been some time coming, but the first of our long promised books on the Olympics is finally here!

Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions Through Time charts how the British contributed to the development of the Olympic Games as an institution, and how they did this through the development of competitive sport through the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This intriguing new volume tells the story of how the first modern Olympic revival happened and the role that British sporting movements and administrators played in its success. The book takes the reader from the earliest Olympic revivals in England to London being awarded the hosting rights for the London 1908 games.

To do this we drew on a broad range of research materials - among them archives belonging to the IOC, the British Olympic Associaton, FIFA, the National Football Museum, the English Amateur Atheltics Association, the collections of Lord Desborough, and numerous newspapers.

This volume will be of considerable interest to research academics working on aspects of 19th and early 20th century British, European and World History, including sport, social, business, management, economic and political history.

It is out from today in print direct from Emerald or your favourite bookseller - or also as an eBook or ePub.  Ideal for Christmas, or if you work or study at a universiity perhaps consider getting your academic library to subscribe to the electronic version.

This book is the latest in our series Frontiers of Management History which focuses on new and innovative histories. If you have a book idea connected to the history of business, management or organizations then please get in touch with us.

This is not the last we will do on this topic - watch this space for future releases!