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'The Army Isn't All Work' - Physical Culture and the Evolution of the British Army, 1860-1920 (Paperback)
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'The Army Isn't All Work' - Physical Culture and the Evolution of the British Army, 1860-1920 (Paperback)
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Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the
British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an
anachronistic and frequently ineffective organization to being
perhaps the most professional and highly trained army in the world.
Historians have tended to view that transformation through the
successive political reform efforts of those years, but have
largely overlooked the ways in which the Army transformed itself
from within. This change was effected through the modernization of
training, operational and leadership doctrines. The adoption of
formal physical training and organized games played a central part
in this process. With its origins in elite public schools and
upper-class country homes, the Army's philosophy of Athleticism was
a part of the ethos of 'muscular Christianity' widely held in
contemporary British institutions. Under the potent influence of
this philosophy, military sport went from a means of keeping
soldiers from drink and the officers from duty, to an
institutionalized form of combat training. This book documents the
origins and development of formal physical training in the late
Victorian Army and the ways in which the Army's gymnastic training
evolved into a vital building block of the process of turning a
civilian into a fighting man. It also assesses the nature and
extent of British military sport, particularly regimental sports,
during this period of evolution for the Army. Through an
investigation of the Army's physical culture during this dynamic
period, one can gain an understanding of not only how the Army's
change from within occurred, but also of some of the important
links between the Army and its parent society.
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