A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume II: Scrap Merchants, 1970-2020

by Gary M. Armstrong, Matthew Bell, Gary Armstrong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303063552X
• ISBN13: 9783030635527
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"