- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press; illustrated edition edition (14 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719060273
- ISBN-13: 978-0719060274
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,515,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Beaven's examination of the Coventry case is a welcome addition to a literature that has been overly dominated by London and Lancashire. This is a bold study that reviews working-class male leisure, and the concerns it gave rise to, across an extensive period. Its thematic scope and its local basis usefully complement existing work. Beaven has produced a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of popular leisure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. James Thompson, University of Brisol --James Thompson, University of Brisol
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Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class- and gender-exclusive, and that the issue of male leisure was intimately linked with contemporary debates on mass society and morality. This lively and readable book uses fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of interest to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.
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