Sport and the British A Modern History

Name: Sport and the British A Modern History
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ISBN: 9780192852298

ISBN-10: 0192852299

ISBN-13: 9780192852298

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Richard Holt

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This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantly urban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of `fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events. Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in…

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List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/18/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Plates


Abbreviations


Introduction



Old Ways of Playing



Before the Victorians



Cruelty and Sloth: The Abolitionists



Field Sports and the Decline of Paternalism



Survival and Adaptation



Amateurism and the Victorians



Public Schools



The Body in Victorian Culture



The Age of the `Gentleman Amateur'



Female Sport and Suburbia



Living in the City: Working-Class Communities



Rational Recreation



The Life of the Street



Spectating and Civic Pride



Gambling, Animals, and Pub Sports



Flight from the City



Empire and Nations



Colonial Elites



The Imperial Idea and `Native' Sport



Dominian Culture and the `Mother Country'



Celtic Nationalism: Ireland, Wales, and Scotland



Enlishness and Britishness



Commercialism and Violence



Shareholders and Professionals



Press, Television, and Profit



Hooligans



Conclusion


Appendix


Bibliography


Index