Research Catalog

Title

Sport, militarism and the Great War : martial manliness and armageddon / edited by Thierry Terret and J.A. Mangan.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Terret, Thierry.
• Mangan, J. A.

Description

xvii, 308 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into military efficiency - both physiological and psychological - in the decades leading up to it. This book looks at the role that sport played in the Great War.

Series Statement

Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives

Uniform Title

Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Sports > Social aspects > History > 20th century
• Militarism > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918
• Masculinity in sports
• Militarism
• Sports > Social aspects
• Sport
• Militarismus
• Männlichkeit
• Weltkrieg

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Prologue: Making Men, Destroying Bodies: Sport, Masculinity and the Great War Experience, Thierry Terret. Part One: Doing Sport, Preparing War and Vice-Versa: Continental Perspectives -- 2. Preface: Masters of the game, Jan Tolleneer -- 3. Sport in the Trenches: The New Deal for Masculinity in France, Arnaud Waquet -- 4. American Sammys and French Poilus in the Great War: Sport, Masculinities and Vulnerability, Thierry Terret -- 5. Wartime Rugby and Football: Sports Elites, French Military Teams and International Meets During the First World War, Arnaud Waquet and Joris Vincent -- 6. Boccioni's Coin, Sergio Giuntini and Angela Teja -- 7. Modern Pentathlon and the First World War: When Athletes and Soldiers Met to Practise Martial Manliness, Sandra Heck. Part Two: Victorian and Edwardian 'Anglo-Saxon' Attitudes to War -- 8. Preface: They Also Served -- Re-evaluating and Reconsidering the Neglected, Robert Hands -- 9. Tragic Symbiosis: Distinctive 'Anglo-Saxon' Visions and Voices, J.A. Mangan -- 10. Happy Warriors in Waiting? Wykehamists and the Great War -- Stereotypes, Complexities and Contradictions, J.A. Mangan -- 11. In Memoriam: The Great War -- John Bain, Elegist of Lost Boys and Lost Boyhoods, J.A. Mangan -- 12. Rescued from Obscurity: Forgotten of the Great War -- Elementary Schoolteacher Sportsmen at the Front, J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey -- 13. Militarism, Drill and Elementary Education: Birmingham Nonconformist Responses to Conformist Responses to the Teutonic Threat Prior to the Great War, J.A. Mangan and Frank Galligan -- 14. 'The Greater and Grimmer Game': Sport as an Arbiter of Military Fitness in the British Empire -- The Case of 'One-Eyed' Frank Mcgee, Nic Clarke -- 15. Epilogue: Armageddon 1914-1918: 'Anglo-Saxon' Voices Rediscovered and the Insignificant Reincarnated, J.A. Mangan.

ISBN

• 9780415699167
• 0415699169

OCLC

• ocn751750894
• 751750894
• SCSB-1673335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library