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Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / / Brad Beaven



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Autore: Beaven Brad Visualizza persona
Titolo: Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / / Brad Beaven Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press
New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 305.38/962094109034
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: British society
association football
citizenship
drink
early Edwardian era
late Victorian era
male leisure
music hall
suburbanization
war
working-class males
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both cl
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ISBN: 1-84779-360-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828947403321
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Serie: Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)