May the Best Man Win

P. Mcdevitt

ISBN 10: 0230606350 / ISBN 13: 9780230606357

Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jun 2008, 2008

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935. 179 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: May the Best Man Win
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE Jun 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230606350
• ISBN 13: 9780230606357
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 11D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 290 grams

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Synopsis

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 imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935.

About the Author

PATRICK F. McDEVITT is an Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, USA.