The Games Ethic and Imperialism : Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal

This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Series Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Publicists, Propagandists and Proselytizers Ideals of Empire for Public Schoolboys 2 Concepts of Duty and Prospects of Adventure Images of Empire for Public Schoolboys 3 Manly Chaps in Control Blues and Blacks in the Sudan 4 ‘Gentlemen Galore’ Athleticism and Atheism in Tropical Africa 5 Eton in India The Careful Creation of Oriental ‘Englishmen’ 6 Discipline in the Dominion The ‘Canuck ’ and the Cult of Manliness 7 Christ and the Imperial Games Fields Evangelical Athletes of the Empire Select Bibliography Notes to Chapters Subject Index This book describes the imperial spread of public school games through a consideration of hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation.