Sport and the British World, 1900-1930

Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond

• Author(s): E. Nielsen,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 257
• ISBN_10: 1137398515
  ISBN_13: 9781137398512
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , History / Social History , History / World , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Australia & New Zealand , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Political Science / Public Policy / General ,

Description:... This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.