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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      22 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511622168
      9780521572170
      9780521576550
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511622168
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 128 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.185kg, 128 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      New Studies in Economic and Social History (33)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    New Studies in Economic and Social History (33)
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    This book provides a concise, up-to-date survey of one of the most dramatic changes in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, the radical transformation which occurred in the extent and nature of its participation in sport. Neil Tranter focuses on the issues which have attracted most interest from historians of sport and poses a number of important questions: did levels of involvement in sport increase or decrease during the initial stages of urban-industrialisation? When did the new sporting culture first emerge, and what were its principal features and the mechanisms through which it spread? What were the main aims of the participants and supporters, and to what extent were these aims achieved? The author also discusses the economic consequences of this cultural change and the examines the role of women in this sporting 'revolution' and asks why their participation was so much more restricted than that of men.

    Reviews

    ‘ … extremely welcome … and excellent introduction to the issues which historians of sport confront, and sets out the findings of the most recent research in an exemplary way … an admirable book, and it is difficult to see how it could have been done better’.

    Source: History

    ‘Tranter has produced an important book. It should enable a wide range of teachers to introduce sports history to a cross disciplinary audience; an area of study that has often been trivialised, yet one that has been central to the fabric of British life since pre-industrialisation.’

    Source: Journal of European Area Studies

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