''Manufactured'' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the ''manufacture'' of masculinity in the period world-famous ''public'' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known, at the zenith of its control and which has had a significant influence in the formation of the modern world. This authoritative study of the making of British imperial masculinity shines light on the period of Muscular Christianity, Social Darwinism and Militarism as meshed ideological instruments of both power and persuasion.
This magisterial study reveals the extraordinary and paramount influence of games fields as the ''machine tools'' in an ''industrial process'' with the schools as ''workshops'' containing ''cultural conveyor-belts'' for the production of robust, committed and confi
