Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / Brad Beaven.
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TextSeries: Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)Publication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781847793607
- 1847793606
- 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
- Hommes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- Hommes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle
- Loisirs -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Loisirs -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Leisure -- Social aspects
- Men -- Social life and customs
- Working class -- Social life and customs
- Great Britain
- 1800-1999
- 305.38/962094109034 22
- HQ1090.7.G7 B43 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
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.
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.
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