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Auteur(s) : Donaldson, Peter
Titre(s) : Sport, war and the British [Texte imprimé] : 1850 to the present / Peter Donaldson
Publication : London ; New York : Routledge,, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (181 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Routledge research in sports history
Lien à la collection : Routledge research in sports history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Sports -- Aspect politique -- Grande-Bretagne
Sports -- Société -- Grande-Bretagne
Sports -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367340780 (rel.). - ISBN 036734078X. - ISBN 9780429323799 (erroné). - ISBN
9781000048360 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000048322 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000048346 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46566739t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46566739
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