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May the Best Man Win
Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935
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May the Best Man Win
Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Gender and Imperial Sport
- Chapter Two: Strong Men, Free Men: Gaelic Team Sports and Irish Masculinity
- Chapter Three: The King of Sports: Polo in Late Victorian and Edwardian India
- Chapter Four: May the Best White Man Win: Boxing, Race, and Masculinity
- Chapter Five: Defending White Manhood:The Bodyline Affair in England and Australia
- Chapter Six: Black Skin in White Flannel:The West Indies Join the Bodyline Fray
- Chapter Seven: Conclusions: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index