May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403965523)

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.

Author: P. McDevitt
ISBN-10: 1403965528
ISBN-13: 9781403965523
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2004
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.24w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 331