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Author Colls, Robert, author

Title This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 / Robert Colls
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Summary '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
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2020
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 24, 2020)
Subject Sports -- England -- History
Sports -- Social aspects -- England -- History
Hunting -- England -- History
Hunting -- Social aspects -- England -- History
Hunting
Hunting -- Social aspects
Sports
Sports -- Social aspects
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191874543
019187454X