This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960
Colls, Robert2023
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'This Sporting Life' offers a 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.
Main title:
This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 / Robert Colls.
Author:
Colls, Robert, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780192870223 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
306.483094
Language:
English
BRN:
2593860
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