What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: - English football and British decline - Englishness and sport - Ethnicity and nationalism in Scotland - Social change and national pride in Wales - Irish international football and Irishness - Sport and...
What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing toge...
Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, social reform, foreign and colonial affairs, and imperial preference. He was a formative influence on the development of party politics in late Victorian and Edwardian England. This bibliography provides the most comprehensive survey to date of primary and secondary material relating to this seminal figure.
The bibliographical references listed in the volume cover every stage and aspect of Chamberlain's controversial career. Editorial comments...
Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, soc...
The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a 'super club' comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s. As a touring club - they first travelled to South Africa in 1897 and made regular forays into Europe and also to Canada, the United States and Brazil - they were the self-proclaimed standard bearers for gentlemanly values in sport.
Indeed for many years they were most...
The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians...
