The History of Sport in Britain 1880-1914 V4

The History of Sport in Britain 1880-1914 V4
ISBN-10
1000560546
ISBN-13
9781000560541
Category
Social Science
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2021-12-17
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Martin Polley

Description

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 4 includes sport money- looking at the areas of professionalism and amateurism, as well as gambling.

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