Tennis:Cultural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tennis:Cultural History write by Heiner Gillmeister. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Tennis:Cultural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a comprehensive history of tennis and arguably, the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. The author amasses a range of linguistic and documentary evidence to chart the growth of this popular sport.
An Indispensable Liberty
An Indispensable Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Indispensable Liberty write by Mary M. Cronin. This book was released on 2016-03-09. An Indispensable Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This collection of eleven essays examines nineteenth-century legal and extralegal attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press as well as the efforts of others to push back against those restrictions"--
French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century
French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century write by Masha Belenky. This book was released on 2017-03-30. French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century brings together current scholarship on a diverse range of topics—from French postcards and Third Republic menus to Haitian literary magazines and representation of race in vaudeville theater—in order to provide methodological insight into the current practice of French cultural studies. The essays in the volume show how scholars of French studies can effectively analyze what we term “non-traditional sources” in their historical and geographical contexts. In doing so, the volume offers a compelling vision of the field today and maps out potential paradigms for future research. This bookbuilds upon previous scholarship that defined the stakes of using an interdisciplinary approach to analyze cultural objects from France and Francophone regions and aims to evaluate the current state of this complex and constantly evolving field and its current methodological practices.
A Social History of Tennis in Britain
A Social History of Tennis in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social History of Tennis in Britain write by Robert Lake. This book was released on 2014-10-03. A Social History of Tennis in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game’s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the history of wider British society. Since its emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion, with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures. Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation and professional and social development that have shaped both tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of empire; and, Britain’s shifting relationship with America, continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport or British social history.
The History of Physical Culture in Ireland
The History of Physical Culture in Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Physical Culture in Ireland write by Conor Heffernan. This book was released on 2021-01-24. The History of Physical Culture in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
