May the Best Man Win

Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935

P. McDevitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

179 Seiten

2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-60635-7 (ISBN)

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As Britain's great power status came to be increasingly challenged in the decades before the First World War, one by-product of the resultant uncertainty was the weakening of the Victorian, middle-class consensus of what constituted ideal manhood. Britain's empire was not only the source of wealth and power, but it simultaneously provided alternative models of masculinity and nationhood. Consequently, the empire and the commonwealth played an important role in defining imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935.

PATRICK F. McDEVITT is an Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Gender and Imperial Sport Strong Men, Free Men: Gaelic Team Sports and Irish Masculinity The King of Sports: Polo in late Victorian and Edwardian India May the Best White Man Win: Boxing, Race and Masculinity Defending White Manhood: The Bodyline Affair in England and Australia Black Skin in White Flannel: The West Indies Join The Bodyline Fray Conclusions Notes Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.6.2008
Zusatzinfo	IX, 179 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-230-60635-0 / 0230606350
ISBN-13	978-0-230-60635-7 / 9780230606357
Zustand	Neuware