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Title Pleasure, profit, proselytism : British culture and sport at home and abroad, 1700-1914 / edited by J.A. Mangan
Published London ; Totowa, NJ : F. Cass, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages : illustrations)
Series Sport in the Global Society
Sport in the global society.
Contents Sport and industrialization : an economic interpretation of the changes in popular sport in nieneteenth-century England / Wray Vamplew -- Bonaparte and the squire : chauvinism, virility and sport in the period of the French Wars / Derek Birley -- Social stratification and participation in sport in mid-Victorian England with particular reference to Lancaster, 1840-70 / M.A. Speak -- Football and the urban way of life in nineteenth-century Britain / R.J. Holt -- Catalyst of change : John Guthrie Kerr and the adaptation of an indigenous Scottish tradition / J.A. Mangan -- Brothers of the angle : coarse fishing and English working-class culture, 1850-1914 / John Lowerson -- From popular culture to public cliche : image and identity in Wales, 1890-1914 / Gareth Williams -- The Pan-Britannic Festival / Katherine Moore -- A new Britannia in the antipodes : sport, class and community in colonial South Australia / John A. Daly -- Latter-day culture imperialists : the British influence on the establishment of cricket in Philadelphia, 1842-72 / J. Thomas Jable -- South Africa's Black Victorians / Andre Odendaal
Analysis Commonwealth countries Sports Social aspects, 1700-1914
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Commonwealth gnd
Subject Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Sports -- Social aspects
Sport
Sport.
Sociale aspecten.
Sports -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siecle.
Sports -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
Sports -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siecle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siecle.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Mangan, J. A
LC no. 87024977
ISBN 9781000144062
1000144062