Reformers, Sport, Modernizers: Middle-class Revolutionaries / Edition 1

by J A Mangan

Overview

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world'sport - now a phenomenon of global significance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714652443
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Series:	Sport in the Global Society , #4
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Prologue: middle-class Missionaries in pursuit of physical, moral, political and social health, J.A. Mangan; the living legacy - classical sport and 19th-century middle-class commentators of the German-speaking nations, Ingomar Weiler; a tranquil transformation - middle-class racing Revolutionaries in 19th-century England, Mike Huggins; unrecognized middle-class revolutionary? Michael Cusack and cultural change in 19th-century Ireland, Joseph M. Bradley; missing middle-class dimensions - elementary schools, imperialism and athleticism, J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey; mostly middle class - the European fin de siecle cycling obsession with speed, distance and records, Andrew Ritchie and Rudiger Rabenstein; Golden Boys of playingfield and battlefield - celebrating heroes - Lost middle-class women versifiers of the Great War J.A. Mangan; modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Youchev - middle-class patriot and the assertion of a nation, Vassil Girginov and Lozan Mitev; radical conservatives! middle-class masculinity, the Shikar Club and big game hunting, J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie; a dark Prince of Denmark?, Neils Bukh, 20th-century middle-class propagandist, Hans Bonde. Epilogue: J.A. Mangan

Editorial Reviews

Mangan (International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation, and Society, U. of Strathclyde, UK) presents ten chapters that look at the role of the European middle class in the evolution of modern sport in the late 19th century. Articles look at the German pedagogical promotion of physical training drawn from Antiquity, racing as a means to transfer wealth from the English upper classes to the middle classes, the relationship of British imperialism to sport, the commercial aspects of the obsession with speed and records, and the cultural diffusion of English sport to Italy. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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