Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad, 1700-1914J. A. Mangan This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire. |
Contents
Sport in NineteenthCentury England Wray Vamplew 7 | 2 |
Social Darwinism Private Schooling | 12 |
the French Wars Derek Birley | 21 |
Social Stratification and Participation | 42 |
Football and the Urban Way of Life | 67 |
John Guthrie Kerr | 86 |
Coarse Fishing | 105 |
A Tangible | 144 |
J Thomas Jable | 175 |
André Odendaal | 193 |
Sport in Victorian and Edwardian Canada David W Brown | 215 |
Cricket and Colonialism in | 231 |
Hegemony and Indigenous Subversion? Richard Cashman | 258 |
Index | 269 |
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