ISBN:
9781135286866
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1135286868
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (289 pages)
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mangan, J A Reformers, Sport, Modernizers : Middle-class Revolutionaries
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
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History
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Europe
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Middle class History
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19th century
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Europe
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Europe
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Middle class History 19th century
;
Sports Social aspects
;
History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Middle class
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Sports ; Social aspects
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History
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Europe
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of
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