May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935 - Hardcover

P.F. McDevitt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403965528 ISBN 13: 9781403965523

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

As Britain's great power status came to be increasingly challenged in the decades before the First World War, one by-product of the resultant uncertainty was the weakening of the Victorian, middle-class consensus of what constituted ideal manhood. Britain's empire was not only the source of wealth and power, but it simultaneously provided alternative models of masculinity and nationhood. Consequently, the empire and the commonwealth played an important role in defining imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935.

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About the Author

PATRICK F. McDEVITT is an Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403965528
• ISBN 13: 9781403965523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188