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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I - Rings of Steel, 1720-1970 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I - Rings of Steel, 1720-1970 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and
anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to
explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues
pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around
state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy
and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the
masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the
sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development
of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology
with sports studies and historical research the text expertly
examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic
papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies
and contemporary interviews. In Volume I, Bell and Armstrong
construct a vivid history of boxing and probe its cultural
acceptance in the late 1800s, examining how its rise was
inextricably intertwined with the industrial and social development
of Sheffield. Although Sheffield was not a national player in
prize-fighting's early days, throughout the mid-1800s, many
parochial scores and wagers were settled by the use of fists. By
the end of the century, boxing with gloves had become the norm, and
Sheffield had a valid claim to be the chief provincial focus of
this new passion-largely due to the exploits of George Corfield,
Sheffield's first boxer of national repute. Corfield's deeds were
later surpassed by three British champions: Gus Platts, Johnny
Cuthbert and Henry Hall. Concluding with the dual themes of the
decline of boxing in Sheffield and the city's changing social
profile from the 1950s onwards, the volume ends with a meditation
on the arrival of new migrants to the city and the processes that
aided or frustrated their integration into UK life and sport.
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