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Informationen zum Autor J. A. Mangan is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Founding and Executive Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport now in its 28th year as well as Founding Editor of the series Sport in the GlobalSociety! now in its 12th year. He was Founding Editor of Sport in Society and Soccer and Society. He has authored or edited over 40 books including the internationally acclaimed monographs Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: the Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology and The Games Ethic and Imperialism; Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal.Callum C. McKenzie is a lecturer of Social Policy at the East Lancashire Institute of Higher Education. He gained his PhD at Strathclyde University and is a regular contributor to the International Journal of the History of Sport. Zusammenfassung This book examines the late Victorian and Edwardian link between hunting, masculinity and militarism and how it was idealized as a means to serve British imperialist interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Another Publication of Significance Roberta J. Park 2. Prologue: Statement 3. ‘Duty unto Death’ – the Sacrificial Warrior: English Middle Class Masculinity and Militarism in the Age of the New Imperialism 4. Privileged Education, Hunting and the Making of Martial Masculinity 5. Martial Conditioning, Military Exemplars and Moral Certainties: Imperial Hunting as Preparation for War 6. Martial and Moral Complexities: Changing Certainties in Changing Imperial Landscapes 7. Publicist and Proselytizer: The Officer-Hunter as Scientist and Naturalist 8. Imperial Masculinity Institutionalized: The Shikar Club 9. Martial Masculinity in Transition: The Imperial Officer-Hunter and the Rise of a Conservation Ethic 10. Epilogue: Recapitulation
