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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 predominantlyurban 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 fascinatingsubject.
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- Author : Richard Holt
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Genre : Great Britain
- Total Pages : 428 pages
- ISBN : 9780192852298
- Release Date : 16 June 1990
- PDF File Size : 15,6 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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