UID:
almahu_9949385915602882
Format:
1 online resource (181 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9780429323799
,
0429323794
,
9781000048322
,
1000048322
,
9781000048346
,
1000048349
,
9781000048360
,
1000048365
Series Statement:
Routledge research in sports history
Content:
"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, before moving 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"--
Note:
'Hunt, shoot, and fight': Victoria's small wars, 1837-1899 -- 'We are having a very enjoyable game': Sport and the South African War, 1899-1902 -- 'A new and deadly game': British sporting culture in the first World War -- Winning the 'Ashes of Civilisation': Sport and World War two -- 'Top Gun 1, Mad Dogs 0': War in the Nuclear Age, 1945 to the present.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Donaldson, Peter (Peter McIntosh). Sport, war and the British. New York : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367340780
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
History.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9780429323799
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429323799
