Dilwyn Porter / Stephen Wagg (eds.)

Amateurism in British Sport

It Matters Not Who Won or Lost?
Herausgeber: Porter, Dilwyn; Wagg, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the essays collected here, amateurism, both as ideology and practice, is subject to critical and unsentimental scrutiny, effectively challenging the dominant narrative of more conventional histories of British sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415380447
• ISBN-10: 0415380448
• Artikelnr.: 37180096

Autorenporträt

Dilwyn Porter, Stephen Wagg

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction
1. The Amateur Body and the Middle-class Man: Work
Health and Style in Victorian Britain
2. Captains Courageous: Gentlemen Riders in British Horse Racing
1866-1914
3. The Ambiguities of Amateurism: English Rugby Union in the Edwardian Era
4. Revenge of the Crouch End Vampires: The AFA
the FA and English Football's 'Great Split'
1907-14
5. 'The Really Good Professional Captain Has Never Been Seen!': Perceptions of the Amateur/Professional Divide in County Cricket
1900-39
6. The Amateur Ideal and British Sports Diplomacy
1900¿1945
7. Amateurism
Sport and the Left: Amateurism for All Versus Amateur Elitism
8. Amateurism
Capital and Roger Bannister
9. 'I'll Run Him': Alf Tupper
Social Class and British Amateurism
10. 'Base Mechanic Arms'? British Rowing
Some Ducks and the Shifting Politics of Amateurism
Index