This book examines the late Victorian and Edwardian link between hunting, masculinity and militarism and how it was idealized as a means to serve British imperialist interests.
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.
This book describes the imperial spread of public school games through a consideration of hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation.
This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.
The relationship between sport and the development of male identity from the 19th to the 20th century is discussed in this collection of studies on the making of modern masculinity.