Reformers, Sport, Modernizers: Middle-class Revolutionaries

by Mangan; J.A.

• ISBN13: 9780714682280
• ISBN10: 0714682284
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 global significance.

Author Biography

J.A. Mangan is Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
J.A. Mangan
Prologue: Middle-Class `Revolutionaries' in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, Political and Social Health	1	(8)
J.A. Mangan
The Living Legacy: Classical Sport and Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Commentators of the German-Speaking Nations	9	(26)
Ingomar Weiler
A Tranquil Transformation: Middle-Class Racing 'Revolutionaries' in Nineteenth-Century England	35	(23)
Mike Huggins
Unrecognized Middle-Class Revolutionary? Michael Cusack, Sport and Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Ireland	58	(15)
Joseph M. Bradley
Missing Middle-Class Dimensions: Elementary Schools, Imperialism and Athleticism	73	(18)
J.A. Mangan
Colm Hickey
Mostly Middle-Class Cycling Heroes: The Fin de Siecle Commercial Obsession with Speed, Distance and Records	91	(43)
Andrew Ritchie
Rudiger Rabenstein
`Golden Boys' of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes - `Lost' Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War	134	(28)
J.A. Mangan
Modernizing Bulgaria: Todor Yonchev Middle-Class Patriot and the Assertion of a Nation	162	(23)
Vassil Girginov
Lozan Mitev
Radical Conservatives: Middle-Class Masculinity, the Shikar Club and Big Game-Hunting	185	(25)
J.A. Mangan
Callum McKenzie
A Dark 'Prince' of Denmark: Niels Bukh, Twentieth-Century Middle-Class Propagandist	210	(20)
Hans Bonde
The Apostle of Italian Sport: Angelo Mosso and English Athleticism in Italy	230	(23)
Gigliola Gori
Epilogue: The History of Modern European Sport as a History of Modern European Ideas	253	(4)
J.A. Mangan
Notes on Contributors	257	(3)
Abstracts	260	(5)
Select Bibliography	265	(8)
Index	273