Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Publicists, Propagandists and Proselytizers; 2. Concepts of Duty and Prospects of Adventure; 3. Manly Chaps in Control; 4. Gentlemen Galore; 5. Eton in India; 6. Discipline in the Dominion; 7. Christ and the Imperial Games Fields; Bibliography; Notes; Index
Summary
This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism
Notes
Originally published: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1986
Continues: Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian public school