1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146878703321

Autore

Huggins Mike

Titolo

Horseracing and the British, 1919-39 / / Mike Huggins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-78170-166-0

1-280-73448-5

9786610734481

1-84779-079-8

1-4237-0651-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Studies in Popular Culture

Disciplina

798.4/00941

798.400941

Soggetti

Horse racing - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables; General editor's foreword; Preface; Price conversion index; Introduction; 1 The racing business between the wars; 2 Horseracing, the media and British leisure culture, 1918-39; 3 Off-course betting, bookmaking and the British; 4 Declining opposition to betting on racing; 5 Racing culture: the racecourse and racecourse life; 6 Jockeys, trainers and the micro-world of the stable; 7 Breeders and owners; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the prize-winning author of Flat Racing and British Society 1780-1914, this is the first book to provide a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and to explore the cultural world of racing during the inter-war



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996445851503316

Autore

Ulbrich David

Titolo

Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare / / David Ulbrich, Bobby A. Wintermute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-058879-X

3-11-047746-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 pages)

Disciplina

355.0081

Soggetti

Women and war - History

Masculinity - History

Armed Forces - Minorities - History

Sociology, Military - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Showalter, Dennis E. -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Western Warfare as a Crucible for Constructions of Race and Gender -- 2. Race and Gender in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Race, Gender, and Warfare during New Imperialism -- 4. Gender and the First World War -- 5. Race and the First World War -- 6. Race and Gender on the Eastern Front and in the Pacific War -- 7. Gender and Race on the Homefronts in the Second World War -- 8. Race and Gender in the United States during the Early Cold War -- 9. Race and Gender During Decolonization -- 10. The Future of Race and Gender in Warfare -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity are transformed by war and how they in turn influence the nature of military institutions and conflicts. Focusing on the modern West, this project begins by introducing the contours of race and gender theories as they have evolved and how they are employed by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and other scholars. The



project then mixes chronological narrative with analysis and historiography as it takes the reader through a series of case studies, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the Global War of Terror. The purpose throughout is not merely to create a list of so-called "great moments" in race and gender, but to create a meta-landscape in which readers can learn to identify for themselves the disjunctures, flaws, and critical synergies in the traditional memory and history of a largely monochrome and male-exclusive military experience. The final chapter considers the current challenges that Western societies, particularly the United States, face in imposing social diversity and tolerance on statist military structures in a climates of sometimes vitriolic public debate. RGMWW represents our effort to blend race, gender, and military war, to problematize these intersections, and then provide some answers to those problems.