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This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 / Robert Colls.
LIBRA GV706.35 .C65 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colls, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports and state--England--History.
- Sports and state.
- Sports--Political aspects--England.
- Sports.
- Sports--Social aspects--England.
- Liberty--History.
- Liberty.
- History.
- Sports--Political aspects.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Land of Liberty
- Thoroughly Modern Minna
- Devoted to the Horse
- Fay ce que voudras
- Masters
- 2. Bonny Moor Hen
- Land of Liberties
- Battie of Stanhope 1818
- Framing Land and Liberty
- English Horse Paintings
- This Sporting Life
- 3. `Bottom'
- Deep Play
- Tom's World
- `High and Heroic State'
- Bottom
- Gendemen
- After 1860
- Modern American Era
- 4. Custom
- `A Free and Happy People'
- Finer Feelings
- All Human Life
- Being the People
- Peterloo, 16 August 1819
- 5. Home
- Butterworth's Lancashire 1831-36
- Parish Privileges
- Losing Land
- War on the Parish
- Banks of the Tyne
- Pointillism
- 6. New Moral Worlds
- Cricketers
- Thring of Uppingham
- Tom Brown
- Clarendon and Taunton
- Building `The Wall'
- Ghosts in the Machine
- Alma Mater
- 7. Bloods
- New Moral Bloods
- Culture or Anarchy?
- Boys' Side
- Girls' Side
- Nobody's Fault?
- Somebody's Fault
- Tests and Heroes
- 8. Moderns
- Back Lane Football
- Girls' Play
- Worlds of Labour
- A Local Life
- An Associational Life
- When Saturday Came
- Flowing Line of Liberty
- Modern Sport
- Ends of Life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198208332
- 9780198208334
- OCLC:
- 1111281120
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