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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beaven, Brad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.
Colección:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rational recreation and the creation of the model citizen, c. 1850-1914
  • The era of mass leisure : the pleasure-seeking citizen
  • Fearing for the empire : male youth, work and leisure, 1870-1914
  • Male leisure in the industrial suburb : 1918-39 : the rise of "suburban neurosis"?
  • Male youth, work and leisure, 1918-39 : a continuity in lifestyle
  • The era of mass communication : working-class male leisure and "good" citizenship between the wars
  • Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World War.