Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

by Ian Buchanan, Bill Mallon

Offers a multitude of hard-to-find facts on the important people, events, and organizations involved in the Olympic movement.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Born in rural Western Australia, Buchanan grew up in the suburbs of Perth. He did his BA and PhD in the English and Comparative Literature program at Murdoch University, graduating in 1995. His PhD dissertation, entitled, "Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies" attempted to fuse the work of de Certeau and Deleuze for the purposes of doing cultural analysis