The History of Sport in Britain 1880-1914 V2Martin Polley Routledge, 24 déc. 2021 - 480 pages First published in 2004. This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport 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 sport had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including Blackwood's Magazine, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review and Contemporary Review, which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sport. The five volumes cover the varieties of sport being promoted, sport and education, commercial and financial aspects of sport, sport and animals and the globalization of sport through empire. Volume 2 includes sport, education and improvement. |
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... question of the effects of athletics upon vice and immorality at schools . We are familiar with a widely - beld opinion that healthy games are , per se , a check upon vicious tendencies , but we do not account for the fact that among ...
... questions of right and wrong his behaviour goes far to shape the yet pliant dispositions of those around him , the future ruling class of the country . The question then arises whether an enlightened superior authority would naturally ...
... question : What is the secret of the importance attached by schoolboys to athletics ? and omitting such recondite causes as Teutonic nationality , climate , & c . , let us see if there are no less complex , more preventible causes at ...
... question knows that herein lies a great practical difficulty . Athleticism is able to cope with many indolent bad boys , who are stirred up to indulge in an occupation at once healthy and absorbing , and are so kept from the ...
... question thoroughly , and will express their opinion as plainly as any weekly review . Perhaps he learns for the first time that having ideas is not the same thing as expressing them . But to promote the existence of journals which deal ...