Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
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' ... 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'. 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.' Journal of European Area Studies
Book Description
Neil Tranter draws on the recent surge of academic interest in this topic to provide a concise, up-to-date survey of a dramatic change in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain: the radical transformation in the extent and nature of Britain's involvement in sports. Neil Tranter examines key questions such as the principal features of this new sporting culture, how and why it spread, and the economic consequences of this cultural change. He also looks at who the particpants were, and to what extent women were involved in this sporting "revolution."
Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914 (New Studies in Economic and Social History),Neil Tranter,Maurice Kirby,Cambridge University Press,0521576555,18th century,19th century,Economic aspects,Europe - Great Britain - General,Great Britain,History,History: World,Popular Culture - General,Social aspects,Sociology,Sociology - General,Sports,Western Europe - General,Anthropology,History / Europe / Western,Social history,Sports--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century,Western Continental Europe,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
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