Victorian and Edwardian middle-class England at play /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by J.A. Mangan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Sport in the global society
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : complicated matters / J.A. Mangan -- Prologue : setting the scene : second-class citizens? English middle-class culture and sport, 1850-1910 : a reconsideration / Mike Huggins -- The other side of the coin : Victorian masculinity, field sports and English elite education / J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie -- English elementary education revisited and revised : drill and athleticism in tandem / J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey -- 'Oars and the man' : pleasure and purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge / J.A. Mangan -- Athleticism in the service of the proletariat : preparation for the English elementary school and the extension of middle-class manliness / J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey -- The social construction of Victorian femininity : emancipation, education and exercise / J.A. Mangan -- The 'lady blue' : sport at the Oxbridge women's colleges from their foundation to 1914 / Kathleen E. McCrone -- Sport and the Victorian Sunday : the beginnings of middle-class apostasy / John Lowerson -- To pray or to play? The YMCA question in the United Kingdom and the United States, 1850-1900 / William J. Baker -- Culture, class and respectability : racing and the English middle classes in the nineteenth century / Mike Huggins -- Of pride and prejudice : the amateur question in English nineteenth-century rowing / Eric Halladay -- 'No business of ours'? The Foreign Office and the Olympic games, 1896-1914 / Martin Polley -- Sportsmen and the deadly game / Derek Birley -- Epilogue : rounding things off : sport and middle-class culture : some issues of representation and identity before 1940 / John Lowerson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic, and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle class-- Recreation-- Great Britain-- History.