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"May the Best Man Win": Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935 | 
 enlarge | Author: P.f. Mcdevitt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1950885
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1403965528
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.094109041
EAN: 9781403965523
ASIN: 1403965528
Publication Date: April 17, 2004
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Product Description
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. Not only a source of wealth and power, Britain's Empire also 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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"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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Best book I've ever read about sport history April 8, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The history of sport is littered with nostalgic club histories which read like a laundry list of things which happened and with the worst kind of academic tripe which either belabours the obvious or dresses up the absurd with continental "Theory". This book does neither.
It is insightful and devastating in the way in which the author dismantles the conceits of imperialism through the prism of sport in a way reminiscent of C.L.R James' Beyond a Boundary.
Forget Niall Ferguson's apologia for empire, read this and see the way in which colonizers and colonized worked together and conflicted simultaneously. That's the interesting part of the story. Not paens to the good old days when people knew their place.
Interesting and Clear March 16, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was assigned this book in an upper level course on the history of imperialism. We read a LOT of things that were competely opaque and seemed more intent and showing how clever they were than actually saying anything concrete about the ways imperialism work.
This book however was not like that at all. It talks about how imperialism actually played out on the ground, if you'll excuse the pun.
I know discourse is important (and so does McDevitt) but so is the material world and that is what is convincing about May the Best Man Win. It was a also a really good read with interesting characters which allowed the stories told here to make the points rather than the usual academic jargon we were forced to read.
It did make me think the English really were b***ards, though maybe that was the point.
Fascinating and well-written April 6, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This wonderful book does an excellent job of both providing in-depth and thought-provoking historical analysis while maintaining the fast pace of a sports book. It also is very illuminating of the everyday workings of imperialism.
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