 | A Sport-Loving Society: Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play Subjects: Humanities; Sports and Leisure; Class and Work; Recreation and Consumption; Agencies and Institutions; Gender and Sexuality; States of Mind; History; Sport and Leisure Studies; Social Groups; Sport and Exercise ; Education; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Varieties of Religious Belief ; Social & Cultural History; Sports History; Middle Classes; Masculinity; Primary Education; University; Femininity; Working Classes; In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still felt in the way we organise, play and think of sport today. A Sport-Loving Society presents a selection of groundbreaking essays from the journals which have defined sport history over the past three decades. These essays explore the role of the social institutions and issues of the Victorian and Edwardian periods in shaping the sports of the English middle classes, including: education the emancipation of women religion culture and class diplomacy and war.Showcasing the work of prominent sport historians, this book demonstrates the value of sport as a vehicle for the study of wider social change. Professor J.A. Mangan is former Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was founding Chairman of the British Society of Sports History and founding editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport. He is author of the acclaimed Athleticism and the Victorian and Edwardian Public School and has written and lectured extensively on sport, culture and society |
