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- Title: Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism
- Author : J.A. Mangan & Callum McKenzie
- Release Date : January 18, 2013
- Genre: Sports & Outdoors,Books,Martial Arts & Self Defense,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5726 KB
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The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the ‘blooding’ hunting ritual was a visible ‘hallmark’ of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the period poet of subaltern self-sacrifice, typically considered hunting as essential for the creation of a ‘masculine sporting spirit’ necessary for the consolidation and extension of the empire. Hunting was seen as a manifestation of Darwinian masculinity that maintained a pre-ordained hierarchical order of superordinate and subordinate breeds.
Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism examines these ideas under the following five sections:
martial imperialism: the self-sacrificial subaltern
‘blooding’ the middle class martial male
the imperial officer, hunting and war
martial masculinity proclaimed and consolidated
martial masculinity adapted and adjusted.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.