Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914

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Manchester University Press, 1993 - History - 310 pages
Examines the series of booms in middle-class sports in England whose symbolic starting point was the "invention" of lawn tennis in 1874. These revived and invented activities became a major instrument in delineating the barriers of a class society. They were used as targets for aspirations, symbols of success, vehicles for moral teaching, and agencies of local social bonding. The volume ends with a study of sport's place in the debate over national decline which preceded WWI. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Selected professional occupations
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Annual cost of sporting activity c 1899
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