Keith Rathbone

Sen. Lecturer at Macquarie Uni French and Sports History Author: Sport and physical culture in Occupied France New Books in Sports podcast

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Great job available at the University of Adelaide!

https://t.co/ekkghpodb1

[The George Rudé Society @George_Rude_Soc]

Registration is open for this year's Rudé conference. Great line-up incl Adrian Muckle on the indigénat in New Caledonia, @julie_kalman on Asterix as France's post-war national myth & @leon_hughes12 on prison concierges in revolutionary France. Come along! https://t.co/1FN62tJAKI

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@dr_tgpeterson How can there be no option for blue cheese? 2b?!g

[Sport in History @SprtinHistory]

📢New article📢 @keithrathbone writes on the evolution of physical education in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How did the gen ed curriculum evolve? What were the goals of politicians, reformers, and teachers?

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Another article out with @SportinHistory1 as part of an edited collection on physical education. "Physical education in French schools: a Foucauldian account of changes to the general education curriculum from 1815 to 1944".

https://t.co/G5FK4VNYhw

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Thank you especially to the editors and to @conorgoalie and Dil Porter for putting together the collection and shepherding it through to publication. (Of course I was late with every stage...)

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Meant to also @UChicagoPress in this tweet. Thank you to the editors and marketing team for making this interview possible.

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Latest @newbooksnetwork and @newbookssports interview with @nataliapetrzela about her latest book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2023).

https://t.co/TT6AorMtds

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Fit Nation will be of broad interest to American and sports historians, scholars interested in exercise science and education, and general readers with an interest in fitness, health, and wellness.

Buy a copy here now or on paperback later this year:

https://t.co/EOsRP0zoQ3

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Petrzela brings the knowledge of an insider and the incisive, critical approach of an historian to the question of why Americans spend billions of dollars a year in a quest to keep fit.