Sport and the British [electronic resource] : a modern history / Richard Holt.
Series: Oxford studies in social history: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1989Description: 1 online resource (xii, 396 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191670541 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Sports -- Great Britain -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780192852298DDC classification: 306.4830941 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Holt examines the values and social assumptions implicit in the British attitudes towards various games and how and why the playing and organization of sports have changed over the last 190 years.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Holt examines the values and social assumptions implicit in the British attitudes towards various games and how and why the playing and organization of sports have changed over the last 190 years.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.