Sport War And The British
Download Sport War And The British full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Sport War And The British ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Peter Donaldson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000048365 |
Download Sport, War and the British Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s understanding of conflict. From 1850 onwards war reportage – complemented and reinforced by a glut of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films – helped create an imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the way the ‘reality’ of war was captured in the British popular imagination. Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of modern Britain.
Author | : Tony Mason |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139788973 |
Download Sport and the Military Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three British services from 1880–1960. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book examines how organised sport developed in the Victorian army and navy, became the focus of criticism for Edwardian army reformers, and was officially adopted during the Great War to boost morale and esprit de corps. It shows how service sport adapted to the influx of professional sportsmen, especially footballers, during the Second World War and the National Service years.
Author | : Dilwyn Porter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1135307377 |
Download Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.
Author | : Stephen G. Jones |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Arbejderbevægelser |
ISBN | : 9780719036804 |
Download Sport, Politics and the Working Class Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Holt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780192852298 |
Download Sport and the British Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantlyurban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of `fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events.Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinatingsubject.
Author | : Richard Holt |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631171539 |
Download Sport in Britain 1945-2000 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the complex transformation of British sport in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the key role of the media as a driving force for change, it also provides a fascinating account of the wider social and cultural history of post-war British sport.
Author | : Matthew Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000071367 |
Download Sport and the Home Front Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.
Author | : Martin Polley |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780415231374 |
Download The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: The varieties of sport Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.
Author | : Tony Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781139776097 |
Download Sport and the Military Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three British services from 1880-1960. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book examines how organised sport developed in the Victorian army and navy, became the focus of criticism for Edwardian army reformers, and was officially adopted during the Great War to boost morale and esprit de corps. It shows how service sport adapted to the influx of professional sportsmen, especially footballers, during the Second World War and the National Service years"--
Author | : Dilwyn Porter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 113530730X |
Download Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.