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Author Macdonald, Charlotte.

Title Strong, beautiful and modern : national fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960 / Charlotte Macdonald.

Publication Info. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Note Originally published: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2011.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Movement is life: national fitness in England and Scotland -- Leisure and democracy: physical welfare as the people's entitlement in New Zealand -- Education or health? National fitness in New South Wales and across Australia -- Fitness for war and a changed world: national fitness in Canada -- Healthy bodies, states and modernity: a twentieth-century dilemma.
Summary In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald shows how governments became convinced they must encourage citizens to be healthier and more active, and how these efforts reinforced the cultural ties of the Empire. Alongside these state-sponsored efforts was a growing emphasis from business, the medical establishment, and popular culture on the importance of having "a better body."
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Subject Physical fitness -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Physical fitness -- Government policy.
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Physical fitness.
Physical fitness -- Government policy -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Australia.
Physical fitness -- Government policy -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
New Zealand.
Physical fitness -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
United Kingdom.
Australasia.
Canada.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Macdonald, Charlotte. Strong, beautiful, and modern. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013 (CaOONL)20129071374
ISBN 9780774825306 (e-book)
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