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Sport, War and the British: 1850 to the Present: Routledge Research in Sports History

Autor Peter Donaldson
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Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s understanding of conflict.
From 1850 onwards war reportage – complemented and reinforced by a glut of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films – helped create an imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the way the ‘reality’ of war was captured in the British popular imagination.
Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of modern Britain.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032237992
ISBN-10: 1032237996
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Sports History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Notă biografică

Peter Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in modern British history at the University of Kent, UK.

Cuprins

Introduction
1 Victoria’s small wars, 1837–1899: ‘Hunt, shoot, and fight’
2 The South African War, 1899–1902: ‘We are having a very enjoyable game’
3 The First World War: ‘A new and deadly game'
4 The Second World War: Winning in the ‘ashes of civilisation’
5 War in the nuclear age, 1945 to the present: ‘Top guns 1, mad dog 0’
Conclusion

Recenzii

"This exploration of conceptual metaphors in the narration of Britain’s wars—how they were packaged, configured, and presented to the public, most of whom experienced war vicariously—gives insights into the cultural values of the time from which that narration is produced." - Sebastian Potgieter, University of Otago

Descriere

Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s understanding of conflict.