Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American Boarding Schools

by Axel Bundgaard

Axel Bundgaard has produced a meaningful work on the important but little-told history of interschool athletics, exploring the introduction and nature of sport in the controlled environment of the American boarding school.

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, American educators looked to the English public school as the educational archetype for producing good men, good Christians, and good leaders. The British incorporation of sport...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630824
• ISBN13: 9780815630821
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"