Reformers, sport, modernizers : middle-class revolutionaries / editor, J.A. Mangan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mangan, J. A.

Series:

European sports history review ; v. 4.

The European sports history review, 1462-1495 ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Europe--History.

Sports.

Sports--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Middle class--Europe--History--19th century.

Middle class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired.

Contents:

1. The living legacy : classical sport and nineteenth-century middle-class commentators of the German-speaking nations / Ingomar Weiler

2. A tranquil transformation : middle-class racing 'revolutionaries' in nineteenth-century England / Mike Huggins

3. Unrecognized middle-class revolutionary? Michael Cusack, sport and cultural change in nineteenth-century Ireland / Joseph M. Bradley

4. Missing middle-class dimensions : elementary schools, imperialism and athleticism / J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey

5. Mostly middle-class cycling heroes : the fin de siecle commercial obsession with speed, distance and records / Andrew Ritchie and Rudiger Rabenstein

6. 'Golden boys' of playing field and battlefield : celebrating heroes : 'lost' middle-class women versifiers of the great war / J.A. Mangan

7. Modernizing Bulgaria : Todor Yonchev : middle-class patriot and the assertion of a nation / Vassil Girginov and Lozan Mitev

8. Radical conservatives : middle-class masculinity, the Shikar club and big game-hunting / J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie

9. A dark 'prince' of Denmark : Niels Bukh, twentieth-century middle-class propagandist / Hans Bonde

10. The apostle of Italian sport : Angelo Mosso and English athleticism in Italy / Gigliola Gori.

Notes:

First published in 2002 by Frank Cass.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-28693-0

0-7146-5244-X

1-315-03911-7

1-135-28686-8

9781315039114

OCLC:

868973099