A History of Leisure The British Experience

Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. His approach is analytical and critical, with an emphasis on the long perspective, on key concepts rather than simple chronology, and on the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities.

Peter Borsay is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

List of Tables

ix

Preface

x

Acknowledgements

xviii

Introduction

1

(16)

Definition

1

(7)

History and Leisure

8

(4)

Chronology

12

(5)

Economy

17

(25)

Commercialization

18

(6)

Demand

24

(3)

Supply

27

(7)

A Peculiar Economics

34

(8)

State

42

(32)

Hands Off or Hands On?

43

(6)

The Central State

49

(2)

The Local State

51

(3)

The Informal State

54

(4)

The Motives of the State

58

(12)

A Divided State

70

(4)

Class

74

(33)

The Social Order

75

(4)

The Upper Class

79

(6)

The Working Class

85

(3)

The Middle Class

88

(5)

Fragmented Classes

93

(8)

A Shared Culture?

101

(6)

Identities

107

(38)

Self-and Collective Identities

107

(4)

Gender

111

(11)

Ethnicity

122

(3)

Age

125

(7)

Family, Community, and Club

132

(6)

Surrogacy

138

(7)

Place

145

(22)

Locality and Region

145

(5)

Nation

150

(17)

Space

167

(25)

Tourism and the `Other'

167

(10)

Country and Town

177

(15)

Time

192

(24)

Time, Work, and Leisure

193

(3)

Typologies of Time

196

(11)

Memory and the Recreative Past

207

(9)

Conclusion

216

(13)

`A bit OTT?'

216

(2)

Continuity and Change

218

(4)

Symbol, Play, and `Other'

222

(7)

Notes

229

(48)

Select Bibliography

277

(13)

Index

290

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A History of Leisure The British Experience since 1500

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