A social history of English rowing
By: Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781315035581; 9781306109949
Subjects: Rowing; History; Social life and customs; Aviron; Aspect social; Histoire; Mœurs et coutumes; Manners and customs; Social aspects
Description: This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.
Notes: Originally published 1992 by Frank Cass and Company Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Occupational origins; title: 3. Commercialism; title: 4. Professionalism; title: 5. Recreationalism; title: 6. Amateurism; title: 7. Club fortunes; title: 8. Post-war developments, 1945-91; title: 9. Conclusions.