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Upper- and middle class sport in Victorian Britain and the concept of amateurism
Language: en
Pages: 30
Authors: Mathias Wick
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-18 - Publisher: GRIN Verlag

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Inst
A Sport-loving Society
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: J. A. Mangan
Categories: Middle class
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians
Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: John Lowerson
Categories: Middle class
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which s
Fair Play in Sport
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Sigmund Loland
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking ge
Amateurism in British Sport
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Dilwyn Porter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the essays collected here, amateurism, both as ideology and practice, is subject to critical and unsentimental scrutiny, effectively challenging the dominant