[PDF.83kj] May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935

May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935

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 | #1042188 in Books |  McDevitt Patrick F |  2008-06-17 |  2008-06-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.44 x6.00l,.64 | File type: PDF | 179 pages

 | May the Best Man Win Sport Masculinity and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire 1880 1935

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting and Clear|By Jayhawk|I was assigned this book in an upper level course on the history of imperialism. We read a LOT of things that were competely opaque and seemed more intent and showing how clever they were than actually saying anything concrete about the ways imperialism work.

This book however was not like that at all. It talks about how imperialism| ||McDevitt casts his net widely, taking polo, boxing, cricket and Gaelic sport as his focal points - and his range of sources is impressive. . . . An important contribution to understanding how the history of sport has reached its present situation. - Times Onl

As Britain's great power status came to be increasingly challenged in the decades before the First World War, one by-product of the resultant uncertainty was the weakening of the Victorian, middle-class consensus of what constituted ideal manhood. Britain's empire was not only the source of wealth and power, but it simultaneously provided alternative models of masculinity and nationhood. Consequently, the empire and the commonwealth played an important role in defining i...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935   |  P. McDevitt. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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