Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / / Brad Beaven
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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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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-360-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828947403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)