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A Social History of Tennis in Britain (Paperback)
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A Social History of Tennis in Britain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sports History
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Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British
Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late
nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development
into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance
sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes
in Britain's social history. In the first comprehensive and
critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake
explains how the game's historical roots have shaped its
contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us
much about the history of wider British society. Since its
emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant
culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion,
with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the
reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British
society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently,
the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to
promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts
to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures.
Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global
development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation
and professional and social development that have shaped both
tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain
is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British
social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles
for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of
empire; and, Britain's shifting relationship with America,
continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is
important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in
the history of sport or British social history.
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