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SPORT AND THE BRITISH
A MODERN HISTORY |
| By: |
Richard Holt |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£65.00 |
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£56.88 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0192852299 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780192852298 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 August, 1990 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social History |
| Pages: |
420 |
| Description: |
The British have had a hand in devising most popular, contemporary sports. Holt examines the values and social assumptions implicit in the British attitudes towards various games and how and why the playing and organization of sports have changed over the last 190 years. |
| Synopsis: |
This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantly urban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of 'fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events. Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinating subject. |
| Illustrations: |
8 pp black and white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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Returnable |
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