Reformers, sport, modernizers : middle-class revolutionaries / editor, J.A. Mangan.

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 -- 1. The Living Legacy: Classical Sport and Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Commentators of the German-Speaking Nations -- 2. A Tranquil Transformation: Middle-Class Racing 'Revolutionaries' in Nineteenth-Century England -- 3. Unrecognized Middle-Class Revolutionary? Michael Cusack, Sport and Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- 4. Missing Middle-Class Dimensions: Elementary Schools, Imperialism and Athleticism -- 5. Mostly Middle-Class Cycling Heroes: The Fin de Siecle Commercial Obsession with Speed, Distance and Records -- 6. 'Golden Boys' of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes - 'Lost' Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War -- 7. Modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Yonchev - Middle-Class Patriot and the Assertion of a Nation -- 8. Radical Conservatives: Middle-Class Masculinity, the Shikar Club and Big Game-Hunting -- 9. A Dark 'Prince' of Denmark: Niels Bukh, Twentieth-Century Middle-Class Propagandist -- 10. 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.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.