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Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / Brad Beaven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaven, Brad.
- Series:
- Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
- Studies in popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Men.
- Men--Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Working class--Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Leisure--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Leisure.
- Leisure--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both cl
- Contents:
- 9780719060274; 9780719060274; Copyright; Contents; General editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rational recreation and thecreation of the model citizen,c. 1850-1914; 2 The era of mass leisure:the pleasure-seeking citizen; 3 Fearing for the Empire:male youth, work and leisure,1870-1914; 4 Male leisure in the industrialsuburb, 1918-39: the riseof 'suburban neurosis'?; 5 Male youth, work and leisure,1918-39: a continuity in lifestyle; 6 The era of masscommunication: workingclassmale leisure and 'good'citizenship between the wars
- 7 Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World WarConclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84779-360-6
- OCLC:
- 818847153
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