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Sport, War and the British - 1850 to the Present (Paperback)
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Sport, War and the British - 1850 to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sports History
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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 and then moves 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.
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