| A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 - 1918: Splashing in the Serpentine Contributor(s): Love, Christopher (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415390761 ISBN-13: 9780415390767 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Swimming & Diving - History | Europe - General - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 797.2 |
| Series: Sport in the Global Society |
| Physical Information: 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming, the book fully explores the links between swimming and other aspects of English life society including class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports amateur-professional divide. Uniquely focused on swimming -often neglected in analytic sports histories- this is the first study of its kind and will be an important landmark in the establishment of swimming history as a topic of scholarly investigation. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. |