CONTENTS Series Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Glossary xxiii Chronology xxv 1. English Sports before the Victorians 1 2. The Remaking of Sporting Cultures in Early-Victorian England 23 3. Sports in the Victorian Public Schools and Universities 47 4. Rational Recreation and Muscular Christianity 67 5. The Sporting Revolution 87 6. The New Sporting Woman 113 7. The Professionalization of Sports in Late-Victorian England 137 8. Sports and the Imperial Mission 155 Illustration Sources 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 207
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