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This Sporting Life - Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 (Hardcover)
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This Sporting Life - Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 (Hardcover)
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to
do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do
with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for
modern football? 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.
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