Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism - British Culture and Sport At Home and Abroad 1700-1914

Informationen zum Autor J. A. Mangan Klappentext This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire. Zusammenfassung This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction /J.A.Mangan -- PART ONE: CULTURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN -- 1 Sport and Industrialization: An Economic Interpretation of the Changes in Popular Sport in Nineteenth-Century England /Wray Vamplew -- 2 Bonaparte and the Squire: Chauvinism, Virility and Sport in the Period of the French Wars /Derek Birley -- 3 Social Stratification and Participation in Sport in Mid-Victorian England with Particular Reference to Lancaster, 1840-70 /M.A. Speak -- 4 Football and the Urban Way of Life in Nineteenth-Century Britain /R.J. Holt -- 5 Catalyst of Change: John Guthrie Kerr and the Adaptation of an Indigenous Scottish Tradition /J.A. Mangan -- 6 Brothers of the Angle: Coarse Fishing and English Working-Class Culture, 1850-1914 /John Lowerson -- 7 From Popular Culture to Public Cliche: Image and Identity in Wales, 1890-1914 /Gareth Williams -- PART TWO: CULTURE, SPORT AND GREATER BRITAN -- 8 The Pan-Britannic Festival: A Tangible but Forlorn Expression of Imperial Unity /Katherine Moore -- 9 A New Britannia in the Antipodes: Sport,Class and Community in ColonialSouth Australia /John A. Daly -- 10 Latter-Day Culture Imperialists: The British Influence on the Establishment of Cricket in Philadelphia, 1842-72 /J. Thomas Jable -- 11 South Africa’s Black Victorians: Sport and Society in South Africa in the Nineteenth Century /Andre Odendaal -- 12 Social Darwinism, Private Schooling and Sport in Victorian and Edwardian Canada /David W. Brown -- 13 Cricket and Colonialism in the English-Speaking Caribbean to 1914: Towards a Cultural Analysis /Brian Stoddart -- 14 Cricket and Colonialism: Colonial Hegemony and Indigenous Subversion? /Richard Cashman -- Index....

Product details

• Authors: J A Mangan
• Assisted by: J A Mangan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.1988
• EAN: 9780714632896
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-3289-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Sociology: sport & leisure, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, C 1700 To C 1800