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A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 - 1918 - Splashing in the Serpentine (Hardcover, New)
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A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 - 1918 - Splashing in the Serpentine (Hardcover, New)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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Covering a time of great social and technological change, this
history traces the development of the four classic aquatic
disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming
and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the
beginnings of municipal recreational swimming, the book fully
explores the links between swimming and other aspects of English
life society including class, education, gender, municipal
governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports
amateur-professional divide. Uniquely focused on swimming -often
neglected in analytic sports histories- this is the first study of
its kind and will be an important landmark in the establishment of
swimming history as a topic of scholarly investigation. This book
was previously published as a special issue of the International
Journal of the History of Sport.
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