Colls, Robert,

This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 / Robert Colls. - First edition. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'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.

Specialized.

9780191874543 (ebook) : No price


Sports--History.--England
Sports--Social aspects--History.--England
Hunting--History.--England
Hunting--Social aspects--History.--England

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306.4830942