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Autore |
Beaven Brad |
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Titolo |
Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / / Brad Beaven |
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Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in popular culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Men - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century |
Men - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Working class - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century |
Working class - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Leisure - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Leisure - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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9780719060274; 9780719060274; Copyright; Contents; General editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rational recreation and thecreation of the model citizen,c. 1850-1914; 2 The era of mass leisure:the pleasure-seeking citizen; 3 Fearing for the Empire:male youth, work and leisure,1870-1914; 4 Male leisure in the industrialsuburb, 1918-39: the riseof 'suburban neurosis'?; 5 Male youth, work and leisure,1918-39: a continuity in lifestyle; 6 The era of masscommunication: workingclassmale leisure and 'good'citizenship between the wars |
7 Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World WarConclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and |
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