Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars - Hardcover

Huggins, Mike; Williams, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415331846 ISBN 13: 9780415331845

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of morality, continuity and change, and what it meant to be English during this pivotal time.

Themes include:

• the nature of sport and its place in national life
• how sport was portrayed in the media and through the sports stars of the age
• tradition and change in sport and in society
• gaining meaning from sport: the pursuit of pleasure, a moral code, and ideas of Englishness
• class, social conflict and social cohesion.

This original and lucid study is ideal for students of sport and social history, and anyone with an interest in the social role of sport.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Huggins is Lecturer in History at St Martin's College, UK. His Flat Racing and British Society 1790-1914 was awarded the Sports History Book of 2000 Award by the North American Association of Sports Historians. Jack Williams, now retired, was Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of the Inter-War Years and Cricket and Race were each awarded the Lord Aberdare prize by the British Society of Sport History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415331846
• ISBN 13: 9780415331845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200