Description

Book Synopsis
Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the British world beginning in the 1930s.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland

2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand

3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia

4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada

5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Strong Beautiful and Modern

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9780774825283, 978-0774825283
      ISBN10: 0774825286
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the British world beginning in the 1930s.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland

      2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand

      3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia

      4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada

      5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma

      Endnotes

      Bibliography

      Index

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