A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 - 1918 (eBook, ePUB)

Splashing in the Serpentine
Redaktion: Love, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fully exploring the links between swimming and other aspects of English society including; class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports amateur/professional divide, this unique book is the first of its kind and will be an important landmark in the establishment of swimming history as a topic of scholarly investigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317970279
• Artikelnr.: 58399574

Autorenporträt

Christopher Love is an independent Scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 An Overview of the Development of Swimming in England,
c.1750-1918; Chapter 2 Swimming and Gender in the Victorian World; Chapter
3 Social Class and the Swimming World: Amateurs and Professionals; Chapter
4 Local Aquatic Empires: The Municipal Provision of Swimming Pools in
England, 1828-1918; Chapter 5 Holborn, Lambeth and Manchester: Three Case
Studies in Municipal Swimming Pool Provision; Chapter 6 Swimming at the
Clarendon Schools; Chapter 7 State Schools, Swimming and Physical Training;
Chapter 8 'Whomsoever You See in Distress': Swimming, Saving Life and the
Rise of the Royal Life Saving Society; Chapter 9 Swimming, Service to the
Empire and Baden-Powell's Youth Movements; Chapter 10 Taking a Refreshing
Dip: Health, Cleanliness and the Empire; Chapter 11 A Chronology of English
Swimming, 1747-1918;