When Fitness Went Global
the rise of physical culture in the nineteenth century
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- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2025
Summary
When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the 19th Century
Fitness, exercise and physical culture is a key part of our modern lives, but has this always been the case? In this book, Conor Heffernan shows how the 19th century was critical for the development of the modern fitness industry, and how the globalization of physical culture was entangled in, and spread by, concepts of nationalism, gender, race, empire and medicine.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350500778 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350500771 |
| Author: | Conor Heffernan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 156mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
A must-read book for anyone interested in how the modern fitness industry first spread globally during the nineteenth century. Well written, drawing on a prodigious amount of research, Conor Heffernan impressively analyses just how physical culture practices first critically clustered around a clear set of ideas, movements, products and body ideals. * Dr Mike Huggins Emeritus Professor of Cultural History University of Cumbria, UK *
About The Author
Conor Heffernan
Conor Heffernan is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University, UK, and Chair of the British Society of Sports History. The author of A History of Physical Culture in Ireland, The History of Physical Culture and Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness, Conor has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and runs a history of fitness website, ‘Physical Culture Study’.
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