Not Playing the Game : The Socio-Economic Divide at late Victorian and Edwardian Golf Clubs

ISBN-13: 9783330058132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str.

Wray Vamplew

Opis

Golf was one of the fastest growing recreational sports in Britain during the late Victorian and Edward period. Like most sporting clubs of the time, golf clubs enabled the formation of bonding social capital rather than the bridging kind. Yet within this socially-controlled use of land for a specific recreational purpose there was no total exclusion. Female and working-class players were accommodated without breaking down the male, middle-class dominance by parent-club development of separate 'ladies' sections and artisan clubs.

O autorze

Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Research Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is working on a transnational economic history of sport and is a general editor of the in-progress six volume Cultural History of Sport for Bloomsbury.