Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Critic
Author: The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Alfred WatsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783348074995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Playing the Game
Author: Kathleen E. McCronePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813116419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
" In England the latter years of the nineteenth century saw a period of rapid and profound change in the role of women in sports. Kathleen McCrone describes this transformation and the social changes it helped to bring about. Based upon a thorough canvas of primary and secondary materials, this study fills a gap in the history of women, of sport, and of education."
Willing's Press Guide and Advertisers' Directory and Handbook
Author: The Nation
Author: Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
May's British and Irish Press Guide
Author: Owen Rhoscomyl
Author: John S. EllisPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Around the turn of the century, Welsh readers thrilled to the heroic stories of Owen Rhoscomyl. Having been a cowboy, frontiersman, soldier and mercenary, Rhoscomyl was as adventurous and exotic as his stories. Roving the wilds of the American West, Patagonia and South Africa before finally settling in Wales, Rhoscomyl was a flawed hero who led a rough life that exacted a personal price in poverty, delinquency and violence. He identified deeply with the Welsh nation as a source of tradition, legitimacy and belonging within a wider imperial world. As a popular commercial writer of historical romance, imperial adventure, popular history and public spectacle, he rejected accusations of national inferiority, effeminacy and defeatism in his depictions of the Welsh as an inherently masculine and martial people, accustomed to the rugged conditions of the frontier, ready to advance the glory of their nation and eager to lead the British imperial enterprise. This literary biography will explore the vaulting ambitions, real achievements, and bitter disappointments of the life, work and milieu of Owen Rhoscomyl.
The Victorians and Sport
Author: Mike HugginsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852854157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. They were exported around the world by the British Empire, and Britain's influence in the world led to many of its sports being adopted in other countries. (Americans, however, liked to show their independence by rejecting cricket for baseball.) The Victorians and Sport is a highly readable account of the role sport played in both Victorian Britain and its empire. Major sports attracted mass followings and were widely reported in the press. Great sporting celebrities, such as the cricketer Dr W.G. Grace, were the best-known people in the country, and sporting rivalries provoked strong loyalties and passionate emotions. Mike Huggins provides fascinating details of individual sports and sportsmen. He also shows how sport was an important part of society and of many people's lives.