This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960
- ISBN-10
- 0198208332
- ISBN-13
- 9780198208334
- Series
- This Sporting Life
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Robert Colls
Description
This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
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- 2020-08-28
- 304 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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- 2007
- 284 pages
- Paperback
- Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
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