Macdonald, Charlotte.

Strong, beautiful and modern : national fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960 / Charlotte Macdonald. - 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.

Movement is life : National fitness in England and Scotland -- Leisure and democracy : Physical welfare as the people's entitlement in New Zealand -- Education or health? National fitness in New South Wales and across Australia -- Fitness for war and a changed world : National fitness in Canada -- Healthy bodies, states and modernity : a twentieth-century dilemma.

9781927131404 (pbk.)


Physical education and training--Government policy--Commonwealth countries
Physical education and training--Social aspects--Commonwealth countries

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