Sport and the British: A Modern HistoryThe first book of its kind, this lively history of British sport since 1800 goes beyond a few great names and moments to explain how sports have changed, what they have meant to ordinary people, and reveals what is especially distinctive about British sport in particular. The British were innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal, sports, and in establishing a code of "fair play," which spread throughout the late Victorian Empire. They were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized commercial spectator events, with the accompanying rise of professionalism. |
Contents
Before the Victorians | 12 |
the Abolitionists | 28 |
Field Sports and the Decline of Paternalism | 44 |
Survival and Adaptation | 57 |
Amateurism and the Victorians | 78 |
Workingclass Communities | 135 |
The Life of the Street | 148 |
Spectating and Civic Pride | 159 |
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amateur amongst aristocracy Association Football Athleticism athletics Australian ball became behaviour Billy Meredith BJSH bowling boys Britain British sport C. B. Fry C. L. R. James Cambridge clubs cock-fighting commercial competition cricket crowd Despite distinctive Dixie Dean early Edwardian Edwardian period élite Empire England English especially fight Football Hooliganism forms Gaelic Gaelic games gentlemen Glasgow golf History hunting imperial important increasingly industrial Ireland Irish J. A. Mangan Jack Hobbs kind Labour Lancashire League Leisure Liverpool London Manchester Manchester United middle-class modern moral nineteenth century organized Oxford physical players political Popular Culture popular sport professional football public school race Rugby Union Scotland Scottish sense skilled snooker soccer social Society South spectator sport sportsmen street television tennis took tour tradition urban Vamplew Victorian village W. G. Grace Wales watch wider women workers working-class young youth
References to this book
Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation Garry Whannel No preview available - 1992 |