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Amateur Operatics

A Social and Cultural History

By: John Lowerson

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Amateur Operatics

A Social and Cultural History

By: John Lowerson

Although occasionally dismissed as 'middle-class and middle-brow', amateur operatics has often crossed these boundaries and its repertoire included a fascinating mixture of experiment and conservatism. Today, amateur operatics remain a significant feature of public entertainment despite the competition from other media." "This major new study examines this fascinating outlet for the expression of popular taste, and will be of use to those working in the field of popular culture in Britain, as well as today's amateur operatics enthusiasts."--Jacket.

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Manchester University Press

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0719051975

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Steel of the DLI

Second Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry at War 1914–1918

By: John Sheen

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Steel of the DLI

Second Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry at War 1914–1918

By: John Sheen

The 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was one of only two battalions of the regiment that did not have its history published in some form after the Great War, the other was the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion. As the regular Home Service battalion of the regiment it was brought up to strength with Regular Reservists and men from the Special Reserve and went out to France in September 1914, where it fought at the Battle of the Aisne, before moving north to Flanders. The battalion was in action immediately that war was declared on 4th August 1914, when a detachment based at South Shields boarded a German Steamer on the River Tyne and took the crew prisoner and marched them through the town to the Police Station.The book includes material from unpublished letters and diaries of both officers and men and has lots of photographs from the Regimental Archives, a number of which show named officers and men in the trenches around Armentierres in 1915. Also included is a roll of all the officers that served with the battalion with date of joining and leaving the battalion. For the other ranks the original 1914 Star men are included in a roll that includes reinforcements that joined up to 1 November 1914. This roll has been crossed referenced against the South Africa Rolls to show those who had seen service in that campaign also. There is also a list of those that received gallantry awards. This must be one of the first histories of a regular battalion that fought in France during the Great War, published since the 1920s.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783409908

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9781783409907

Mr. America

The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon

By: John D. Fair

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Mr. America

The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon

By: John D. Fair

“Map[s] the shifting definitions of gender and masculinity . . . provides the rare insight into the world of bodybuilding that only an insider could offer.” —Sport in American History For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle. “An entertaining narrative of the bodybuilding subculture in America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Deftly written and superbly researched.” —Journal of Sport History

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University of Texas Press

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0292767501

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The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800

By: John Hassan

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The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800

By: John Hassan

The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and 1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of the coast as a zone of danger and infection.

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1351882198

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Sport In Consumer Culture

By: John Horne

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Sport In Consumer Culture

By: John Horne

This book offers a distinctive introduction to understanding the position of sport in consumer society. Drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption, the book examines how sport - as both recreational practice and commercial spectacle - has become more central to the capitalist 'economies of signs and space'. Containing up-to-date research findings and identifying key issues in the study and politics of sport in consumer culture, this is essential reading for all students seeking to broaden their understanding of sport in society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230802354

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The British Seaside

Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century

By: John K. Walton

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The British Seaside

Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century

By: John K. Walton

This detailed academic cultural study looks at the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. John K. Walton offers a broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts, looking at who went, where they went, what they did, and how they were entertained.

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Manchester University Press

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0719051703

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Manful Assertions

Masculinities in Britain Since 1800

By: Michael Roper,John Tosh

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Manful Assertions

Masculinities in Britain Since 1800

By: Michael Roper,John Tosh

Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the traditional subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all changing forms.

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1000445968

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Kingdom of the Man-Eaters

By: John Townsend

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Kingdom of the Man-Eaters

By: John Townsend

A true story about the man-eating lions of Tsavo in Kenya which killed 140 people in nine months ? and John Patterson's dangerous quest to stop them.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748766855

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Jumping the Gun

By: Bill Ridgway,John Townsend

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Jumping the Gun

By: Bill Ridgway,John Townsend

One of twelve new titles for 2001, in the Spirals range, one of the most popular and successful series for reluctant readers. Motivation: High interest plots and storylines-with themes that do not patronise or talkdown to reluctant readers-encourage re-reading and further reading. Appeal: The task of reading is made more attractive by eye catching cover designs, paperback style binding, and the absence of related activities and exercises. Achivement: A sence of accomplishment is felt by reluctant readers as they complete whole texts with short, but substantial, chapters and without the aid of illustration. Progression: A controlled reading age of 7 and 8 and an accessible page layout iwth, clear, well-spaced type enable lower achivers to improve their reading at their own pace.

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Understanding Sport

A socio-cultural analysis

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel,Kath Woodward

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Understanding Sport

A socio-cultural analysis

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel,Kath Woodward

In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change. Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the study of sport and society, including: debate, interpretation and theory sport and the media sport and the body sport and politics commercialization globalization. Retaining the accessibility and scholarly rigour for which Understanding Sport has always been renowned, this new edition includes entirely new chapters on global transformations, sports mega-events and sites, sporting bodies and governance, as well as a succinct guide to researching sport. With review and seminar questions included in every chapter, plus concise, helpful guides to further reading, Understanding Sport remains an essential textbook for all courses on sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport and social theory, or social issues in sport.

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1136660305

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The Making of Sporting Cultures

By: John Hughson

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The Making of Sporting Cultures

By: John Hughson

The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the relevant examples discussed. Rather than regarding the historical development of sport as the outcome of passive spectator reception, this work is interested in how sporting cultures have been made and developed over time through the active engagement of its enthusiasts. This is to study the history of sport not only ‘from below’, but also ‘from within’, as a means to understanding the ‘deep relationship’ between sport and people within class contexts – the middle class as well as the working class. Contestation over the making of sport along axes of race, gender and class are discussed where relevant. A range of cultural writers and theorists are examined in regard to both how their writing can help us understand the making of sport and as to how sport might be located within an overall cultural context – in different places and times. The book will appeal to students and academics within humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology and to those in sport studies programmes interested in the historical, cultural and social aspects of sport. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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1317990684

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The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850

By: John Rule

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The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850

By: John Rule

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750 - 1850.

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1317871979

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The empire of nature

By: John M. MacKenzie

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The empire of nature

By: John M. MacKenzie

This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.

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Manchester University Press

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1526119587

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Sport and Physical Education

The Key Concepts

By: Timothy John Lindsay Chandler,Mike Cronin,Wray Vamplew

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Sport and Physical Education

The Key Concepts

By: Timothy John Lindsay Chandler,Mike Cronin,Wray Vamplew

Written specifically for students of both Sports Science and Physical Education,Sport and Physical Education: The Key Conceptsis a reference guide to the disciplines, themes, topics and concerns current in contemporary sport. Entries on such diverse subjects as professionalism, history, exercise physiology and education offer an up-to-date perspective on the changing face of sport science.

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Psychology Press

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0415231426

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Masculinities And Culture

By: Beynon, John

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Masculinities And Culture

By: Beynon, John

This book explores the socio-historical and cultural formation, enactment and representation of masculinities in a range of sites, both in the past and today. In so doing, the author draws on a wide range of resources, including literature, film, historical material, before giving students ideas and guidelines to enable them to carry out their own research.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335199887

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A Short History of Global Evangelicalism

By: Mark Hutchinson,John Wolffe

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A Short History of Global Evangelicalism

By: Mark Hutchinson,John Wolffe

This book offers an authoritative overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in Europe and North America in the first half of the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Starting with a definition of the movement within the context of the history of Protestantism, it follows the history of evangelicalism from its early North Atlantic revivals to the great expansion in the Victorian era, through to its fracturing and reorientation in response to the stresses of modernity and total war in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the movement's indigenization and expansion toward becoming a multicentered and diverse movement at home in the non-Western world that nevertheless retains continuity with its historic roots. The book concludes with an analysis of contemporary worldwide evangelicalism's current trajectory and the movement's adaptability to changing historical and geographical circumstances.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107376890

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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

By: John Rule

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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

By: John Rule

Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found. These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority, and in particular in the opposition to the introduction of the New Poor Law of 1834. Finally the appeal yet limitations of Chartism in the south is demonstrated.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826462286

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The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900

By: John F. Travis

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The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900

By: John F. Travis

The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places. Themes covered include bathing rituals and sea-water drinking, health cures and cholera epidemics, sophisticated amusements and improving recreations, paddle-steamers and excursion trains.

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University of Exeter Press

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0859893928

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Gerald Howard-Smith and the ‘Lost Generation’ of Late Victorian and Edwardian England

By: John Benson

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Gerald Howard-Smith and the ‘Lost Generation’ of Late Victorian and Edwardian England

By: John Benson

Gerald Howard-Smith’s life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the world in which he lived. Tall, boisterous and sometimes rather irascible, he was one of the so-called ‘Lost Generation’ whose lives were cut short by the First World War. Brought up in London, and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he excelled both at cricket and athletics. After qualifying as a solicitor he moved to Wolverhampton and threw himself into the local sporting scene, making a considerable name for himself in the years before the First World War. Volunteering for military service in 1914, he was decorated for bravery before being killed in action two years later. Reporting his death, the War History of the South Staffordshire Regiment claimed that, ‘In his men’s eyes he lived as a loose-limbed hero, and in him they lost a very humorous and a very gallant gentleman.’ As well as telling the fascinating story of Gerald Howard-Smith for the first time, this important new biography explores such complex and important issues as childhood and adolescence, class relations, sporting achievement, manliness and masculinity, metropolitan-provincial relationships, and forms of commemoration. It will therefore be of interest to educationalists, sports historians, local and regional historians, and those interested in class, gender and civilian-military relations – indeed all those seeking to understand the economic, social, and cultural life of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

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Routledge

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1317128494

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9781317128496

Sports Geography

By: John Bale

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Sports Geography

By: John Bale

In this fully revised and updated edition of his classic, discipline-defining text, John Bale comprehensively explores the relationships between sport, place, location and landscape.

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Psychology Press

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0419252304

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England Eats Out

A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present

By: John Burnett

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England Eats Out

A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present

By: John Burnett

Why do so many people now eat out in England? Food and the culture surrounding how we consume it are high on everyone’s agenda. England Eats Out is the ultimate book for a nation obsessed with food. Today eating out is more than just getting fed; it is an expression of lifestyle. In the past it has been crucial to survival for the impoverished but a primary form of entertainment for the few. In the past, to eat outside the home for pleasure was mainly restricted to the wealthier classes when travelling or on holiday- there were clubs and pubs for men, but women did not normally eat in public places. Eating out came to all classes, to men, women and young people after World War Two as a result of rising standards of living, the growth of leisure and the emergence of new types of restaurants having wide popular appeal. England Eats Out explores these trends from the early nineteenth century to the present. From chop-houses and railway food to haute cuisine, award winning author John Burnett takes the reader on a gastronomic tour of 170 years of eating out, covering food for princes and paupers. Beautifully illustrated, England Eats Out covers highly topical subjects such as the history of fast food; the rise of the celebrity chef and the fascinating history of teashops, coffee houses, feasts and picnics.

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1317873742

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Venturing Into No Man's Land

Joseph Maxwell VC, World War I Hero

By: John Ramsland

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Venturing Into No Man's Land

Joseph Maxwell VC, World War I Hero

By: John Ramsland

A flash blinds me... We are lost in a chaos of flying mud... Smoke, filth, confusion, racket! I spit and splutter and swear... Oh Christ! I think I'm flamin' well dead.' This is the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph 'Darkie' Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC - the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War. Meticulously researched by historian John Ramsland, Maxwell's colourful life is traced from his childhood on the Hunter coalfields until his death at age 71 in a soldier's settlement home in Matraville Sydney. Maxwell was a vivid storyteller who wrote Hells Bells and Mademoiselles, telling of his experiences in the war. In telling Maxwell's story, Ramsland has uncovered many forgotten documents to piece together an extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.

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Brolga Publishing

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1922036897

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Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature

Batting for the Opposition

By: John Bale

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Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature

Batting for the Opposition

By: John Bale

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature. The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their writings their anti-sports rhetorics. These writers are Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jerome K. Jerome, John Betjeman and Alan Sillitoe. In its conclusion, the book draws together the broad themes discussed in the preceding chapters. Innovative in its approach to sport and literature and remarkable for its not having been previously explored in any depth, this book will be of interest to readers from both social sciences and humanities backgrounds.

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1134100485

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A Man's Place

Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

By: John Tosh

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A Man's Place

Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

By: John Tosh

divDomesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century—illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds—and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. /DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300143680

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Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: John Ling

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Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: John Ling

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

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1783276169

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Understanding Leisure

By: Les Haywood,Frank Kew,Peter Bramham,John Spink,John Capenerhurst,Ian Henry

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Understanding Leisure

By: Les Haywood,Frank Kew,Peter Bramham,John Spink,John Capenerhurst,Ian Henry

First published in 1989. Understanding Leisure is a readable introductory analysis of the key elements in the study of leisure. This includes leisure concepts and dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, and leisure futures, leisure and social theory. A collaborative work of six authors, Understanding Leisure is a textbook which introduces the reader to the interrelated dimensions of leisure in contemporary society and aims to provide them with guidelines for further study. Exercises and discussion topics are included at the end of each chapter to enable the reader to apply general theory to particular examples. The text contains seven chapters covering all aspects of the study of leisure. Starting with a critical evaluation of different concepts of leisure it progresses through an analysis of the relationship between leisure both to play and work and the diverse forms of leisure such as recreation, hobbies, crafts and education. There then follows a perspective on leisure participation, an analysis of the spatial dimensions of leisure and how relative land values can affect access to leisure. The historical context of leisure provision and the changing relationship between public and private sector is then examined which provides insights into the future of leisure, based on forecasts and theories of social change. The book ends with a discussion of how contemporary social theory contributes to an understanding of leisure. Understanding Leisure will be valuable reading for undergraduate degree courses in Leisure Studies. It will also be useful background reading for post graduate study in Leisure and Recreational Management and Tourism as well as for leisure professionals in both the commercial and public sectors.

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0429620187

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Rugby and the South African Nation

Sport, Cultures, Politics, and Power in the Old and New South Africas

By: David Ross Black,John Nauright

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Rugby and the South African Nation

Sport, Cultures, Politics, and Power in the Old and New South Africas

By: David Ross Black,John Nauright

Conventional historical and political analyses of South Africa have frequently neglected the vital role of sport in general, and rugby in particular. This book fills the gap through a critical interpretation of rugby's role in the development of white society, its role in shaping significant social divisions, and its centrality to the apartheid era "power elite".

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Manchester University Press

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0719049326

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Public Law

By: John Stanton,Craig Prescott

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Public Law

By: John Stanton,Craig Prescott

With its fresh, modern approach and unique combination of practical application and theoretically critical discussion, Public Law guides students to a clear understanding of not only the fundamental principles of the subject, but how they are relevant in everyday life.

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Oxford University Press

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0198722931

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Understanding the Olympics

By: John Horne,Garry Whannel

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Understanding the Olympics

By: John Horne,Garry Whannel

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games. This thoroughly revised and updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the face of growing global anti-Olympic activism, the changing geo-political context within which the Olympics take place, and the Olympic histories of the next three cities to host the Games – Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and Los Angeles (2028) – as well as the legacy of the London (2012) Olympics. For the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of ‘other Games’ associated with the IOC – the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. It also features a full Olympic history timeline, many new photographs, refreshed suggestions for further reading, and revised illustrations. The most up-to-date and authoritative textbook available on the Olympic Games, Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

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Routledge

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Gulp and Gasp

By: John Townsend

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Gulp and Gasp

By: John Townsend

This is one of twelve titles for 2002, from the Spirals range for reluctant readers. They contain dynamic plots and storylines, engaging themes, attractive cover designs and short but substantial chapters to give a sense of achievement in reading whole texts. The clearly laid out text without illustrations and activities encourages a focus on reading and enables low achievers to improve at their own pace. This play is a shocking, old-time drama about two greedy villains, a damsel in distress and a dashing hero. Will the bad guys get their comeuppance and will the good guys live happily ever after? It is a play for four parts.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748766812

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Raiders of the Dome Diamond

By: John Townsend

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Raiders of the Dome Diamond

By: John Townsend

Designed for reluctant readers whether children or adults, the Spirals series has been expanded with 12 titles for 2003, including four non-fiction titles. Dynamic plots and storylines encourage readers to pick them up again and again, while engaging themes and attractive cover designs aim to motivate readers. Short but substantial chapters give a sense of achievement in reading whole texts and a clear text design without illustrations and activities that may distract, encourages focus on reading and enables low achievers to improve at their own pace.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748772448

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Priestley’s England

J. B. Priestley and English culture

By: John Baxendale

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Priestley’s England

J. B. Priestley and English culture

By: John Baxendale

Priestley’s England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley – novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics. The book explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the themes which preoccupied Priestley throughout his life: competing versions of Englishness; tradition, modernity, and the decline of industrial England; ‘Americanisation’, mass culture and ‘Admass’; cultural values and ‘broadbrow’ culture; consumerism and the decay of the public sphere; the loss of spirituality and community in ‘the nervous excitement, the frenzy, the underlying despair of our century’. It argues that Priestley has been unjustly neglected for too long: we have a great deal to learn both from this extraordinary, multi-faceted man, and from the English radical tradition he represented. This book will appeal to all those interested in the culture and politics of twentieth-century Britain, in the continuing debates over ‘Englishness’ to which Priestley made such a key contribution, and in the life and work of one of the most remarkable and popular writers of the past century.

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Manchester University Press

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1847796443

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The Australian Victories in France in 1918

By: John Monash

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The Australian Victories in France in 1918

By: John Monash

First published in 1920, The Australian Victories in France in 1918 immediately garnered glowing praise as one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of war ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most important records of World War I, revealing the critical role Australians played on the Western Front. General Sir John Monash, regarded as the best allied commander of World War I, records his experiences leading a series of victories that turned the tide of the war, from the defence of Amiens, to the battle of August 8th and the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. He reveals the challenges he faced in leading tens of thousands of troops, and the decision-making and innovations in the field that led to their success. Republished in full, this edition features a new foreword by Bruce Haigh, colour reproductions of the original maps that were hand-drawn under Monash's supervision, and new photos. It also includes a memo from General Rawlinson congratulating Monash on the performance of the Australian Corps- 'I feel that no mere words of mine can adequately express the renown that they have won for themselves and the position they have established for the Australian nation not only in France but throughout the world.' 'From the far-off days in 1914, when the call first came, until the last shot was fired, every day was filled with loathing, horror, and distress . . . Yet it had to be, and the thought always uppermost was the earnest prayer that Australia might forever be spared such a horror on her own soil.' John Monash

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Black Inc.

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1925203344

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9781925203349

Burke and Hare

The Body Snatchers

By: John Townsend

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Burke and Hare

The Body Snatchers

By: John Townsend

It's Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. Two Irishmen, William Burke and William Hare, are waiting to catch their next victim. This is one of twelve titles in the Spirals range, a series for reluctant readers. A reading age of 7 and 8 and a page layout with well-spaced type enable lower achievers to improve their reading at their own pace.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748760695

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Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914

By: John Lowerson

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Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914

By: John Lowerson

This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.

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0719046513

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