Movement is life: national fitness in England and Scotland -- Leisure and democracy: physical welfare as the people's entitlement in New Zealand -- Education or health? National fitness in New South Wales and across Australia -- Fitness for war and a changed world: national fitness in Canada -- Healthy bodies, states and modernity: a twentieth-century dilemma
Summary
In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald shows how governments became convinced they must encourage citizens to be healthier and more active, and how these efforts reinforced the cultural ties of the Empire. Alongside these state-sponsored efforts was a growing emphasis from business, the medical establishment, and popular culture on the importance of having "a better body."
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Originally published: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2011
