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Leisure and class in Victorian England. Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830–1885

Dave Russell

Year: 2014 Journal:   Annals of Leisure Research Vol: 17 (3)Pages: 340-342   Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Abstract

The study of British popular leisure emerged as a key feature of the ‘new’ social history of the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the collective impact of a body of scholarship rather than a single l...

Keywords:
CONTEST Recreation Scholarship Sociology Leisure studies Class (philosophy) Control (management) Gender studies Political science Economics Economic growth Management Law Epistemology

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Citation History

Topics

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Social Sciences →  Social Sciences →  Sociology and Political Science
Sports, Gender, and Society
Social Sciences →  Social Sciences →  Gender Studies
Diversity and Impact of Dance
Social Sciences →  Psychology →  Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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