Reformers, sport, modernizers : middle-class revolutionaries /
Reformers, sport, modernizers : middle-class revolutionaries /
editor, J.A. Mangan.
- 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
- European sports history review ; v. 4 .
- European sports history review ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Prologue: Middle-Class 'Revolutionaries' in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, and Political and Social Health -- The Living Legacy: Classical Sport and Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Commentators of the German-Speaking Nations -- A Tranquil Transformation: Middle-Class Racing 'Revolutionaries' in Nineteenth-Century England -- Unrecognized Middle-Class Revolutionary? Michael Cusack, Sport and Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Missing Middle-Class Dimensions: Elementary Schools, Imperialism and Athleticism -- Mostly Middle-Class Cycling Heroes: The Fin de Siecle Commercial Obsession with Speed, Distance and Records -- 'Golden Boys' of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes - 'Lost' Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War -- Modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Yonchev - Middle-Class Patriot and the Assertion of a Nation -- Radical Conservatives: Middle-Class Masculinity, the Shikar Club and Big Game-Hunting -- A Dark 'Prince' of Denmark: Niels Bukh, Twentieth-Century Middle-Class Propagandist -- The Apostle of Italian Sport: Angelo Mosso and English Athleticism in Italy -- Epilogue: The History of Modern European Sport as a History of Modern European Ideas -- Notes on Contributors -- Abstracts -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
0714682284 9780714682280 071465244X 9780714652443
Sports--Europe
Middle class--Europe
306.483
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Prologue: Middle-Class 'Revolutionaries' in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, and Political and Social Health -- The Living Legacy: Classical Sport and Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Commentators of the German-Speaking Nations -- A Tranquil Transformation: Middle-Class Racing 'Revolutionaries' in Nineteenth-Century England -- Unrecognized Middle-Class Revolutionary? Michael Cusack, Sport and Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Missing Middle-Class Dimensions: Elementary Schools, Imperialism and Athleticism -- Mostly Middle-Class Cycling Heroes: The Fin de Siecle Commercial Obsession with Speed, Distance and Records -- 'Golden Boys' of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes - 'Lost' Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War -- Modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Yonchev - Middle-Class Patriot and the Assertion of a Nation -- Radical Conservatives: Middle-Class Masculinity, the Shikar Club and Big Game-Hunting -- A Dark 'Prince' of Denmark: Niels Bukh, Twentieth-Century Middle-Class Propagandist -- The Apostle of Italian Sport: Angelo Mosso and English Athleticism in Italy -- Epilogue: The History of Modern European Sport as a History of Modern European Ideas -- Notes on Contributors -- Abstracts -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
0714682284 9780714682280 071465244X 9780714652443
Sports--Europe
Middle class--Europe
306.483