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When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Andrew T. Jarboe

2026.3.13JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY

DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2026.2642740

Abstract

Fitness trends have a long history. In his latest monograph, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century, historian Conor Heffernan asks why, at the turn of the...

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JARBOE, Andrew T. When fitness went global: The rise of physical culture in the nineteenth century. JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, 2026, 54(3): 1009–1010.