Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor Mangan's customary panache, it has become a classic, the seminal work on the social and cultural history of modern sport.
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Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor Mangan's customary panache, it has become a classic, the seminal work on the social and cultural history of modern sport.
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As New. This is the first major study of the ethos of games, known as athleticism, that obsessed Victorian and Edwardian public schools and dominated the lives of many school boys; it traces the growth and consolidation of this once powerful ideology and investigates the means by which it was created and sustained; includes photographs (gray & white covers with photo of the 1910 Harrow School cricket team on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment.
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