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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's history through its great sporting cultures, from the horseback pursuits of the wealthy and politically connected, to the street games in working-class neighbourhoods which needed nothing but a ball. It observes people at play, describes how they felt and thought, carries the reader along to a match or a hunt or a fight, draws out the sounds and smells of humans and animals, showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Robert Colls |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2020-08-28 |
File |
: 408 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192575029 |
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This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society. Just as our own games have a lot to say about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, who played (and who wasn't allowed to play), and what it all conveys about gender, race, imperialism, and national pride. Drawing extensively on 19th-century writings, The Sporting Life begins with a survey of sports in pre-Victorian England and the impact of industrialism in the early 19th century. We read of the effects of evangelicalism and utilitarianism, both of which first opposed sport, then used it for their own purposes. We learn of the association of sports with masculinity, an identification women challenged late in the century. Finally we learn how English sports became part of the imperial game, used to promote—and resist—the spread of Victoria's vast empire.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Nancy Fix Anderson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Release |
: 2010-02-26 |
File |
: 244 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780313071485 |
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Genre |
: Sports |
Author |
: Robert Lynd |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1922 |
File |
: 324 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015048888153 |
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This is the twentieth in a series of occasional volumes devoted to studies in British art, published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press. --Book Jacket.
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Genre |
: Art |
Author |
: Morna O'Neill |
Publisher |
: Yc British Art |
Release |
: 2010 |
File |
: 344 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105211740837 |
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"This book is an account of the way in which I gained whatever knowledge I may possess about horses."--Preface, page [vii].
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Genre |
: Dressage |
Author |
: Matthew Horace Hayes |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1894 |
File |
: 410 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89052496361 |
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: |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1895 |
File |
: 744 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105126957468 |
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Genre |
: Big game hunting |
Author |
: Sir Edward Braddon |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1895 |
File |
: 434 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:32044106191901 |
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Genre |
: Sports |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1888 |
File |
: 536 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433066620851 |
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Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Merritt Moseley |
Publisher |
: Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Release |
: 1999 |
File |
: 352 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: PSU:000048631778 |
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: |
Author |
: Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1872 |
File |
: 448 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:HW32SU |