This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 / Robert Colls.

First edition.

9780191874543 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

GV605

306.4830942

'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.

'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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: 9780198208334

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