books.google.co.uk - This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Sport_and_the_English_Middle_Classes.html?id=rUPoAAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSport and the English Middle Classes
Manchester University Press, 1995 - Social Science - 310 pages
This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.
