The National Sports of Great Britain
Author | : Henry Thomas Alken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Boxing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Thomas Alken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Boxing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Holt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780192852298 |
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 predominantlyurban 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 sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinatingsubject.
Author | : Richard William Cox |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : 9780719025921 |
Author | : Martin Polley |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780415231374 |
This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.
Author | : Barrie Houlihan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0415874831 |
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. This book provides an analysis that examines sport policy as a field of government and discusses how the various sectors have been affected by government and the competition for public resources.
Author | : Martin Polley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134766882 |
Martin Polley provides a survey of sport in Britain since 1945 and examines sport's place in British culture. He discusses issues of class, gender, race, commerce and politics, as well as analysing contemporary sport.
Author | : Ben Carrington |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134578164 |
Contrary to the popular belief that sport is an arena largely free from the corrosive effects of racism, this book argues that racism is evident throughout British sport. From playing fields and boardrooms of sports organisations, to the offices of sports policy makers and the media, this book breaks new ground in showing how discourses of 'race' and nation continue to pervade our sporting life. Looking at a range of sports, including football, rugby league and cricket, this book covers key topics such as: * British nationalism and nationalist ideology * racial science and the images of Asian and black physicality * sport, racism and the law * black feminism and the issues of race, gender and sport * the role of the media in perpetuating and challenging racial stereotypes. Challenging the prevailing liberal view that sport is one area of society where 'good race-relations' are developed, this book offers a wealth of research material, and a strong theoretical perspective on contemporary British sport. It will therefore be of vital interest to sociologists, sports studies students, sport policy-makers and anyone with an interest in contemporary British sport.
Author | : Martin Polley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2021-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000560511 |
First published in 2004. This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sport had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including Blackwood's Magazine, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review and Contemporary Review, which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sport. The five volumes cover the varieties of sport being promoted, sport and education, commercial and financial aspects of sport, sport and animals and the globalization of sport through empire. Volume I includes the Varieties of Sport.
Author | : Matthew Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000071367 |
Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.
Author | : Tony Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |