Neil Tranter draws on the recent surge of academic interest in this topic to provide a concise, up-to-date survey of a dramatic change in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain: the radical transformation in the extent and nature of Britain's involvement in sports. Neil Tranter examines key questions such as the principal features of this new sporting culture, how and why it spread, and the economic consequences of this cultural change. He also looks at who the particpants were, and to what extent women were involved in this sporting "revolution."
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' ... extremely welcome ... and excellent introduction to the issues which historians of sport confront, and sets out the findings of the most recent research in an exemplary way ... an admirable book, and it is difficult to see how it could have been done better'. History
'Tranter has produced an important book. It should enable a wide range of teachers to introduce sports history to a cross disciplinary audience; an area of study that has often been trivialised, yet one that has been central to the fabric of British life since pre-industrialisation.' Journal of European Area Studies
'Tranter has produced an important book. It should enable a wide range of teachers to introduce sports history to a cross disciplinary audience; an area of study that has often been trivialised, yet one that has been central to the fabric of British life since pre-industrialisation.' Journal of European Area Studies
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Neil Tranter draws on the recent surge of academic interest in this topic to provide a concise, up-to-date survey of a dramatic change in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain: the radical transformation in the extent and nature of Britain's involvement in sport. Neil Tranter examines key questions such as the principal features of this new sporting culture, how and why it spread, and the economic consequences of this cultural change. He also looks at who the particpants were, and to what extent women were involved in this sporting 'revolution'.
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From the dawn of human civilisation, it seems, the need for some form of sporting physical recreation has been almost as imperative to human beings as the need to procreate, work and eat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
horserace meetings, animal blood sports, racecourse companies, urban industrialisation, games cult, sporting recreations, organised sport, folk football, sporting culture, sporting pastimes, elite public schools, curling club, diffusionist model, physical recreation, female sport, soccer clubs, professional soccer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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From the dawn of human civilisation, it seems, the need for some form of sporting physical recreation has been almost as imperative to human beings as the need to procreate, work and eat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
horserace meetings, animal blood sports, racecourse companies, urban industrialisation, games cult, sporting recreations, organised sport, folk football, sporting culture, sporting pastimes, elite public schools, curling club, diffusionist model, physical recreation, female sport, soccer clubs, professional soccer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bridge of Allan, First World War, Football League, Glasgow Rangers, Arnold Hills, English Football Association, Glasgow Celtic New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sport in Britain (Historical Handbooks) by Anthony Mason in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- West Ham United by Charles P. Korr on page 69, page 72, and Back Matter
- Sport, Culture and Politics by J.C. Binfield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity (Sport in the Global Society) by Timothy J.L. Chandler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sports Geography by J. Bale in Back Matter
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