This Sporting Life This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2020
August 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
4.5
MB

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