Reformers, Sport, Modernizers - Middle-class Revolutionaries

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired.

List of contents

Prologue: middle-class Missionaries in pursuit of physical, moral, political and social health, J.A. Mangan; the living legacy - classical sport and 19th-century middle-class commentators of the German-speaking nations, Ingomar Weiler; a tranquil transformation - middle-class racing Revolutionaries in 19th-century England, Mike Huggins; unrecognized middle-class revolutionary? Michael Cusack and cultural change in 19th-century Ireland, Joseph M. Bradley; missing middle-class dimensions - elementary schools, imperialism and athleticism, J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey; mostly middle class - the European fin de siecle cycling obsession with speed, distance and records, Andrew Ritchie and Rudiger Rabenstein; Golden Boys of playingfield and battlefield - celebrating heroes - Lost middle-class women versifiers of the Great War J.A. Mangan; modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Youchev - middle-class patriot and the assertion of a nation, Vassil Girginov and Lozan Mitev; radical conservatives! middle-class masculinity, the Shikar Club and big game hunting, J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie; a dark Prince of Denmark?, Neils Bukh, 20th-century middle-class propagandist, Hans Bonde. Epilogue: J.A. Mangan

About the author

Stewart, Ninian

Summary

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired.

Product details

• Assisted by: J A Mangan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780714652443
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5244-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sports & outdoor recreation, History: specific events and topics, Sociology and anthropology, Sports and Active outdoor recreation