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May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935 P. McDevitt
May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935
P. McDevitt
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.
192 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 17, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230606357 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 179 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 157 × 12 mm · 316 g |