James Anthony Mangan: An Appreciation Sheldon Rothblatt Preface: ‘Swansong’ J.A. Mangan Revolution 1. Prologue: Middle-Class ‘Revolutionaries’ in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, Political and Social Health and the History ofModern European Sport as a History of Modern European Ideas Metamorphosis 2. Bullies, Beatings, Battles and Bruises: ‘Great Days and Jolly Days’ at One Mid-Victorian Public School 3. Athleticism: A Case Study of the Evolution of an Educational Ideology 4. Social Darwinism and Upper-Class Education in Late Victorian and Edwardian England 5. From Hooligans to Heroes and from Ferocity to Fair Play: Some English Historical Origins of Modern World Sport 6. Philathlete Extraordinary: A Portrait of the Victorian Moralist Edward Bowen Adjunct 7. Duty unto Death: English Masculinity and Militarism in the Age of the New Imperialism 8. ‘Muscular, Militaristic and Manly’: The Middle-Class Hero as Moral Messenger 9. Moralists, Metaphysicians And Mythologists: The ‘Signifiers’ of a Victorian Sub-Culture 10. Games Field and Battlefield: A Romantic Alliance in Verse and the Creation of Militaristic Masculinity 11. ‘Golden Boys’ of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes – ‘Lost’ Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War Emulation 12. Imitating Their Betters and Disassociating from Their Inferiors: Grammar Schools and the Games Ethic in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 13. Missionaries to the Scottish Middle Classes 14. Catalyst of Change: John Guthrie Kerr and the Adaptation of an Indigenous Scottish Tradition 15. Almond of Loretto: Scottish Educational Visionary and Reformer Dissemination 16. Images for Confident Control: Stereotypes in Imperial Discourse 17. Britain’s Chief Spiritual Export: Imperial Sport as Moral Metaphor, Political Symbol and Cultural Bond 18. ‘The Grit of Our Forefathers’: Invented Traditions, Propaganda and Imperialism 19. Ethics and Ethnocentricity in British Tropical Africa 20. Noble Specimens of Manhood: Schoolboy Literature and the Creation of a Colonial Chivalric Code 21. Soccer as Moral Training: Missionary Intentions and Imperial Legacies 22. Epilogue: Aggression and Androgyny: Gender Fusion In and Beyond Sport in the Post-Millennium