Sport and the making of Britain
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Sport and the making of Britain
（International studies in the history of sport）
Manchester University Press, 1993
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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: hbk ISBN 9780719037580
内容説明
British enthusiasm for sport is legendary. This book looks at some of the myths and realities surrounding that legend and aims to chronicle how sporting traditions were shaped and how they in turn contributed to the shaping of British social conventions and attitudes. Tracing sporting history from its earliest origins, Derek Birley emphasizes how sport served vastly different functions from the modern notion of a leisure time relief from work. The book begins by examining hunting and the ritualized physical encounters once practised for the purposes of survivial and preparation for warfare. The author then describes how social conventions gradually came to govern the development of sport with an aristocratic, privileged circle forming exclusive regulations. It was from this circle of concepts of "fayre lawe" and, eventually, sportsmanship emanated and the laws of the major sports evolved. However, discriminatory game laws could not prevent the eventual widening of sporting activity, although sport always remained stratified.
The author examines this elaborate stratification in his coverage of such phenomena as the exclusiveness of field sports, the public school influence on football and rowing, the urban middle-class vogues for croquet, badminton and lawn tennis and the reverence for cricket. These social issues are cross threads in the theme of sport's influence on national identity, patriotism and empire-building in the creation of an imperfectly united but highly distinctive kingdom. This book is intended for general readers and students of social and sports history.
目次
- Rude beginnings, 43-1199 AD
- "Christian service and true chivalry", 1200-1485
- upward mobility, 1484-1603
- princes and people, 1603-1688
- politics and patrons, 1688-1756
- aristocrats and entrepreneurs, 1756-1792
- revolution and re-action, 1793-1815
- "sporting personal", 1815-1837
- Victorian dawn, 1837-51
- judicious bottle-holding, 1851-1866
- the missionary spirit, 1867-88.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719037597
内容説明
The British love of sport is legendary. In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society.
The book traces the development of sporting conventions from medieval chivalry to modern notions of sportsmanship and fair play. Particular sports from hunting and the tournament to ball-games and athletics are shown against the social background of the emerging nation. The first laws of favourite pastimes such as horse-racing, cricket and boxing were devised by the privileged for gambling purposes, but were enthusiastically followed by the lower orders for pleasure and profit.
Amongst the topics explored are the changing fortunes and fashions in field sports, 'gentlemen and players' in cricket, the public school games cult, purity in amateur rowing, the urban middle-class discovery of lawn tennis and golf, and the 'north-south divide' in football. These social issues are cross-threads in the theme of sport's influence on national identity, patriotism and imperialism in the making of Britain.
Remarkable in its scope and in its linking of sport to the changing social political scene, this is a splendidly readable history. -- .
目次
- Rude beginnings, 43-1199 AD
- "Christian service and true chivalry", 1200-1485
- upward mobility, 1484-1603
- princes and people, 1603-1688
- politics and patrons, 1688-1756
- aristocrats and entrepreneurs, 1756-1792
- revolution and re-action, 1793-1815
- "sporting personal", 1815-1837
- Victorian dawn, 1837-51
- judicious bottle-holding, 1851-1866
- the missionary spirit, 1867-88.
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