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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: European sports history review ; v. 4.Publisher: London : Frank Cass, 2002Description: 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714682284
  • 9780714682280
  • 071465244X
  • 9780714652443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483
Contents:
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.
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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.

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