The Evolution of English Sport

ISBN-13: 9780714646855 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 181 str.

Neil Wigglesworth

Opis

Until recently sporting history was written by middle-class amateurs, many of whom were Oxbridge graduates. Much of the resulting history of English sport therefore suffers from narrowness of cultural perspectives. The growth of many and varied sporting clubs and the development of sport throughout the country is a vast topic which has largely escaped the attention of those historians who have tended to concentrate on the activities of a metropolitan elite.

Spis treści

Albion

"While he has researched the minute books of more than 120 English sports clubs, his masterful integration of the impact of social tensions, economic developments, government policies, and great historical developments upon sport makes his book stimulating."



Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 2, No. 1

"In many important ways the book has considerable value."



Culture, Sport, Society, Vol 2, No 1

"A study which adds usefully to our stock of knowledge."



Contemporary British History, Vol 10, No 4, Winter 96

"Wigglesworth has made an important contribution with this book as he has fulfilled his stated aim of widening the perspective of sports history."



The Sports Historian, Vol 17, No 2

"A great strength of the book is that unlike so many studies of sport it considers the recreational as well as the first-class variants of sport.

O autorze

Neil Wigglesworth